“You Don’t Know The Shape I’m In”
Jake Lenderman performs and information underneath the identify MJ Lenderman. He put out his first album in 2019. In addition to his solo work, he’s been a member of the band Wednesday, and he’s additionally featured on the Waxahatchee hit track “Right Back to It.” In September 2024, the fourth MJ Lenderman album got here out. It’s known as Manning Fireworks. The New Yorker named it the very best album of the 12 months, and Stereogum, Rolling Stone and Pitchfork all put it of their high ten. For this episode, I talked to Jake about one of many songs from that album, known as “You Don’t Know the Shape I’m In.” The track itself took form in a couple of alternative ways. Coming up, you’ll hear the best way the track began as a demo, after which how that received fleshed out, after which the way it received rebuilt, after which how Jake utterly reimagined the entire thing.
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Illustration by Carlos Lerma.
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Karly Hartzman – vocals
Alex Farrar – engineer and co-producer
Landon George – upright bass
Colin Miller – slide banjo
Shane McCord – clarinet
Patterning app
The Hulk
Boat Songs
Marshall half stack
“The Shape I’m In” – The Band
“You Don’t Know The Shape I’m In” – model featured on Through The Soil II