MJ Lenderman - You Don't Know The Shape I'm In

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  You're listening to Song Exploder,

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  where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.

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  I'm Rishikesh Hirway.

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  Jake Lenderman plays and records under the name MJ Lenderman.

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  He put out his first album in 2019.

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  In addition to his solo work, he's been a member of the band Wednesday,

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  and he's also featured on the Waxahachie hit song Right Back to It.

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  In September 2024, the fourth MJ Lenderman album came out.

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  It's called Manning Fireworks.

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  The New Yorker named it the best album of the year, and Stereogum,

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  Rolling Stone, and Pitchfork all put it in their top ten.

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  For this episode, I talked to Jake about one of the songs from that album,

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  called You Don't Know the Shape I'm In.

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  The song itself took shape in a few different ways.

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  Coming up, you'll hear the way the song started as a demo, and then how that got fleshed out,

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  and then how it got rebuilt, and then how Jake completely reimagined the whole thing.

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  I turned 21 February 2020.

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  And then I had a very creative and prolific COVID time.

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  But once touring came back, we really started hitting it hard.

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  And I hadn't really written much for months.

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