MJ LENDERMAN - Manning Fireworks LP Color:Black Vinyl

MJ LENDERMAN - Manning Fireworks LP Color:Black VinylMJ Lenderman is a songwriter born and raised in Asheville, North Carolina. The anatomy of an MJ record might go something like this: warped pedal steels and skuzzed out guitar; crackin" a cold one with some buds; a voice reminiscent of the high lonesome warble of a choirboy. Songs snake their way from a lo fi home recording to something glossier made withn longtime friends at Asheville"s Drop of Sun studios, but the recording setting doesn"t seem to

celestial music is filled with terrestrial pain

Custom pressed folk songs of love

a certain totality emerges across Atanor that instills visions much like its striking cover art - etheric yet dense

and realized that it was now or never—time to turn off all the outside influences

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Vocals are either in French or German

Peeling this back like an onion reveals a mixture of down-tuned hardcore punk with seriously dark metallic overtones and atmospheric textures piercing through waves of thick reverb

contains: 11 songs

And as to be expected

taking responsibility

With ravishing grimness and impenetrable walls of noise

DEEP PURR (BRIAN PAINE of THE GOSSIP)