A moonstone glow infuses Boy Golden’s Best of Our Possible Lives, an album that reveals its properties - intuition, emotional balance and transformation - through twelve songs of self-discovery. With Best of Our Possible Lives, songwriter/producer Boy Golden’s artistic approach is as philosophical as it is musical. This new work finds him mid-journey, on a quest for honesty with a willingness to examine and accept the self as it was, as it is, and as it can be.  

Buoyant, smooth and disarming, as a whole Best of Our Possible Lives draws lines from the Tulsa sound to swampy New Orleans folk. With the lo-fi mystery of mk.gee, the laid-back swagger of MJ Lenderman and the lyrical intimacy of Waxhatachee, Boy Golden’s music is fresh, observational and honest. His melodies wax nostalgia for the giants (think Paul Simon, Tom Petty and J.J. Cale), yet ring true as the work of a young artist, right now. 

Who is Boy Golden? A conduit for creation, this artistic persona is both an abstraction and a distillation. A shortcut to the flow state, perhaps, Boy Golden grants access to an inner world that can only be known through songwriting. His previous three albums, which include the wistful For Eden, rollicking For Jimmy and debut album, Boy Golden’s lemon yellow leisure suited Church of Better Daze, have served as a psychic clearing of way for Best of Our Possible Lives. “Each new body of work I have finished has pushed me personally towards greater acceptance of myself as a whole person.”

The new album’s diverse yet cohesive sound is a nod to the studio cast, starting with producer Robbie Lackritz (Feist, Bahamas, Weather Station). The making of Best of Our Possible Lives brought Boy Golden to Lucy’s Meat Market in Los Angeles with Pino Palladino (D’Angelo), Abe Rounds (Meshell Ndegeocello), Gabe Noel (Father John Misty), and Joseph Shabason (Destroyer) alongside Church of Better Daze founding members FONTINE and Austin Parachoniak.