Boy Golden Announces New Album 'Best of Our Possible Lives' Out February 13, 2026, via Six Shooter Records

Crucial Rhythm
Oct 1, 2025
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ONE OF ROOTS MUSIC’S MOST SINGULAR SINGER SONGWRITERS EMERGES WITH NEW ALBUM PRODUCED BY ROBBIE LACKRITZ AND FEATURING LEGENDARY BASSIST PINO PALLADINO

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Recently, Boy Golden, singular emerging singer-songwriter, announced the release of his new album, Best of Our Possible Lives, out February 13, 2026, via Six Shooter Records. The smooth and disarming album was produced by Robbie Lackritz (Feist, Bahamas, The Weather Station) and features legendary bassist Pino Palladino, renowned for his work with D’Angelo, Adele, The Who and Elton John, among others.

Best of Our Possible Lives is twelve songs of self-discovery, best considered as roots music from a galaxy far away. Uniting the distant universes of '80s folk pop and '90s country, Boy Golden collides with influences including edgy modern indie rock and is a swaggering slice of sonic exploration that is destined to captivate you from the first note.

Also recently, Boy Golden released the new single "Suffer"—cowbell-ladened indie rock and roll, with lyrics exploring the Buddhist philosophy that the one thing that unifies us all is our human capacity to suffer. He is currently on tour with Birdtalker with upcoming stops in Portland, Seattle, Salt Lake, Denver, Boulder and more.

Holler premiered the track, describing it as, “a cowbell bashing slice of self-consciously louche and artful indie rock and roll with Boy Golden delivering a blistering State of the Nation address.”

Boy Golden shared, “I write songs to seek understanding. Suffering, the first of the Four Noble Truths, is universal. It takes different shapes and forms and magnitudes, but the pain of change, the pain of mortality, the pain of living in bodies we did not choose, is shared.

“Suffer” can’t help but be a political song, because our lives have inherent political consequences, but I don’t believe it to be a partisan song. I write songs to find the threads that bind us all together.

The song came when my ideals were being tested and shattered by the world as it is now. I hope that anyone listening to this song can come to the same conclusion that I did: if we only have this moment, what you do in this moment is who you are. Who do you want to be?”

Who is Boy Golden? On the one hand, it is a moniker for a mysterious new artist, who is building buzz following major support for the track "KD and Lunch Meat" from his debut album which hit #1 at Alternative radio in his home country of Canada, and major moments including debut at Bonnaroo, and opening for Jason Isbell, MJ Lenderman, and Joshua Ray Walker.

On the other hand, Boy Golden is also a conduit for songwriter Liam Duncan—a persona that allows him to create honestly and freely. For Duncan, Boy Golden grants access to an inner world only reachable through music. His three previous albums—For Eden (wistful), For Jimmy (rollicking), and the lemon-yellow-leisure-suited Church of Better Daze—served as a psychic clearing for Best of Our Possible Lives. This new work finds him mid-journey, reckoning with the self as it was, as it is, and as it can be.

Boy Golden states, “The lines between him and I are soluble… Whether it is my spiritual beliefs, my way of living, my sexuality - it comes up in my writing and I am then forced to reckon with it.”

Recorded at Lucy’s Meat Market in Los Angeles in March, the album features contributions from aforementioned Pino Palladino, alongside Abe Rounds (Meshell Ndegeocello), Gabe Noel (Father John Misty), Joseph Shabason (Destroyer), and Church of Better Daze collaborators FONTINE and Austin Parachoniak.

An album with highlights including rocking album thesis, “Suffer,” swampy, moody and resolutely idealistic “The Matter at Hand,” cheeky groovy rocker “Cowboy Dreams,” featuring beautiful vocals from Cat Clyde, “Eyes,” a powerful eulogy for a friend who died by suicide, and breezey folk rocker and perhaps the album’s breakout single “Like a Child” which urges us to be present, adaptable, and vulnerable.

The album’s title was inspired by Boy Golden’s reflections on philosopher Leibniz’s argument that, if God is omnipotent, omniscient, and benevolent, this must be the best of all possible worlds. In the face of suffering and injustice, Boy Golden reframes the idea: being present and living through each moment, somehow accepting it as it is, is our only true option to find peace in the chaos around us.

Boy Golden’s philosophy is simple: By living here—now—in this moment—we create the Best of Our Possible Lives. With a major 2026 tour ahead and anticipation building, this moment truly belongs to Boy Golden.

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