MJ Lenderman - Boat Songs (Dinked Archive Edition No. 29)

Released 14th November 2025

Dear Life Records and Dinked are proud to present a limited edition deluxe repress of MJ Lenderman's breakout albumBoat Songs (DLR031). A little over three years after its release, 'Boat Songs' is now commonly read as the keystone to the 2020s renaissance of alt-country (or whatever you want to call it), and features some of his most enduring hits and live set staples.

The thing about loving your own frailties is that it deepens your ability to love the rest of it, too. Lenderman renders suffering and joy in the same gentle, unhurried deadpan, dragging all those heightened feelings back down to the ground where they can sprout - Pitchfork

There are few eternal truths in this world, but drinking beer with your buddies is always a good time. Ashevilles MJ Lenderman understands this. His third LP Boat Songs doesnt get bogged down with intellectualism or make apologies for its love of Southern ephemera. These