
MJ getting some appreciation from the latest RS listicle:
“For many listeners, North Carolina singer-songwriter MJ Lenderman’s sad-guy musings have practically made him the poet laureate of 2020s indie rock. As a guitarist, he’s a brilliant inheritor of aching-noise greats like Neil Young and J Mascis. On “Knockin’,” he weaves together scenes of twentysomething ennui and delivers a knockout punch with a guitar part that distills heartbreak and loneliness in sonic form. When Lenderman launches into his solo, he stretches it out like taffy, making each note feel as enveloping as the embrace his character pines for throughout the track.* *—J.P.”