MJ Lenderman "And the Wind (Live and Loose!)" metal and overcoming the emotions that

and overcoming the emotions that ever so powerfully bled through nearly every song on here one way or another

The streets of Santa Barbara

"We had the idea to do a show similar to Nirvana's MTV Unplugged as a one-off thing

The process of composing those main themes for the score to represent the emotional landscape involved a bit of trial and error and back and forth

MJ Lenderman "And the Wind (Live and Loose!)" metal and overcoming the emotions thatMj Lenderman writes songs that are amorphous and elastic, rising to fill the venue they're in, generous to accommodate the number of players on stage, less concerned with replicating the studio version than they are with meeting the crowd where they're at. On And the Wind (Live and Loose!), the Asheville based Lenderman handles most of the playing, but with The Wind, it's a multi headed beast. This live album is culled from sold out summer 2023 shows