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- Summary: The latest full-length release from North Carolia singer-songwriter MJ Lenderman was produced with Alex Farrar, who also mixed and recorded the album.
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- Record Label: Anti-
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Sep 3, 2024Lenderman lives up to his rising indie stardom, and Manning Fireworks confirms his status as a premier storyteller of broken hearts and bruised egos.
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Sep 5, 2024There are no more ghosts in these guitar solos, and the wiry licks and riffs are as sure-footed and confident as the tightly crafted structure of each song. It's easy listening, yet fiercely complex.
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Sep 6, 2024The doomed romance, the ragged heartful-ness, the underlying shimmer of cleverness, that’s one element that makes Lenderman’s fourth full-length studio album so special. The other is the wrecking ball arrangements, that turn loose squalls of feedback addled electric guitar amid hazy swoons of strings. .... It never feels like Lenderman is trying to[o] hard. It’s like it’s all natural, all heartfelt, all direct from him to you, except it’s not. It’s more interesting than that.
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Sep 4, 2024Manning Fireworks may not create the same level of enthusiasm as the unexpected Boat Songs, but MJ Lenderman remains equally convincing as a generational songwriter on this go around.
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Sep 6, 2024His fourth solo effort but first for ANTI-, the album like those before it is an unpretentious affair, filled with plenty of sly, smart humor, packed with underdog energy.
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Sep 5, 2024Blurring the lines between inner and outer worlds, ‘Manning Fireworks’ is a powerful achievement, one that deserves to last.
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Sep 16, 2024While the mixes on Manning Fireworks are studiously crafted, Lenderman’s presence largely enrolling, and his guitar acumen undeniable, the set’s overall gestalt is naggingly emulative. Lenderman, as compelling as he can be, rarely transcends the influence of his forebears.