MJ Lenderman‘s music is a bit of unhappy, typically humorous and virtually at all times comforting. He is already performed the Tiny Desk with the indie rock band Wednesday, however after a stellar 2024 — a memorable characteristic on Waxahatchee‘s “Proper Again To It” and his personal solo album, Manning Fireworks — it was time to convey him in for his personal set.
His band, usually known as MJ Lenderman and The Wind, instructed us that once they play their songs stripped again like this, they discuss with themselves as MJ Lenderman and The Breeze. The fiddle-forward “Rip Torn” and “You Do not Know The Form I am In” really feel particularly appropriate for the area.
Lenderman’s compelling lyricism and wry sense of self shines on this efficiency. On a tune pulled from Ghost of Your Guitar Solo, he displays on how he used to assume he wished to be a Catholic priest: “I might by no means have to fret / In regards to the ladies tryin’ to interrupt my coronary heart / All bills paid / Yeah, I would have it made / The home would come furnished.” Afterward, he muses, “Nothing humorous has ever occurred to me.”
SET LIST
- “Wristwatch”
- “Rip Torn”
- “Catholic Priest”
- “You Do not Know The Form I am In”
MUSICIANS
- MJ Lenderman: vocals, guitar
- Jon Samuels: guitar
- Landon George: upright bass
- Ethan Baechtold: piano
- Colin Miller: drums, background vocals
- Xandy Chelmis: dobro, fiddle, background vocals
TINY DESK TEAM
- Producer: Elle Mannion
- Director/Editor: Maia Stern
- Audio Technical Director: Josh Newell
- Host/Collection Producer: Bobby Carter
- Videographers: Maia Stern, Kara Body, Mitra I. Arthur
- Audio Engineer: Josephine Nyounai
- Manufacturing Assistant: Ashley Pointer
- Photographer: Michael Zamora
- Tiny Desk Workforce: Joshua Bryant, Hazel Cills
- Government Producer: Suraya Mohamed
- Collection Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson
- VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins