Boy Golden lately visited Indie88 to talk about his new file For Jimmy, and to play a pair songs from the file stay within the Collective Arts Black Field studio. Watch him carry out particular solo acoustic variations of “Onerous Headed” and “Blue Hills,” each tracks featured on the brand new EP.

About Boy Golden:

“Every thing turns into fluid when you may move by way of time and area like a ghost, a narrative, a melody. Boy Golden manifests all three on For Jimmy.

When listening to his music, it feels simple to dissolve into the ether. Every thing flows. From basic nation to psych-folk, Various to roadhouse pop to Appalaichan bluegrass, Boy Golden’s music is straightforward, breezy, heat and gritty. And don’t it simply really feel good to take heed to it.

Since releasing his debut album, Church of Higher Daze, in 2021, he’s performed each summer time competition in your checklist, produced X albums with pals, launched a dozen movies, curated and directed an artwork present and music video for “KD & Lunchmeat”, the Seth-Rogenesque hit single that charted to #1 on Various Radio, and toured greater than 60 venues throughout North America with The Sheepdogs.

Introspective and weak, conventional and queer, hard-headed and sensual, Boy Golden’s everyman-aesthetic can attraction to all of us. This capacity lies in his songwriting: the songs your pals inform you about, the tales you hear out of your neighbours, your group. He’s snug each within the highlight and simply exterior it, sharing the moments with different artists, lifting others up together with him. He’s a real pupil of Townes Van Zandt and Willie Nelson as a lot as Dwight Yoakam and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Plus his C.O.B.D philosophy, “You possibly can blaze and nonetheless receives a commission” may assist us all to blur borders and previous definitions of genres we thought we knew, like Steve Lacy or Justin Vernon do for Pop music.

Boy Golden is ready to keep his personal distinctive mix of Boy Golden utilizing no matter way of thinking he’s in to suit us into this time. We’re right here proper now.

Intro animation by Nanà Dalla Porta @oktopus_sapiens