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Published on 2026-04-26
Today, visionary singer-songwriter Boy Golden released a new live performance video for song “The Matter at Hand” off of recently released album Best of Our Possible Lives out now via Six Shooter Records.
Watch live performance video for “The Matter of Hand” HERE
Stream Best of Our Possible Lives HERE
The moody new video channels an 80s aesthetic and showcases the song’s bass-heavy sound along with a deliciously addictive and swampy guitar riff. Throughout the song, Boy Golden reflects on his beliefs and idealistic nature.
Of the track, Boy Golden explains, “‘The Matter at Hand’ picks up where ‘Suffer’ leaves off, with my ideals in ruins. Who among us has not seen immense suffering, not just through our screens but also on the streets, in our families and in our wider community. Who among us has not lost a friend or seen someone fall on truly hard times? Who among us, on whatever side of the political spectrum, has not been frustrated by the system we were born into?”
He continues, “I was asked: ‘If everything else about you was erased and you could only keep one part of yourself, what would it be?’ I am by nature idealistic, I believe people can change. It took me some time to accept and love this about myself, and it is the thing I would keep.”
“The Matter At Hand” performance video follows the recent release of album Best of Our Possible Lives. This smooth and disarming album is best considered as roots music from a galaxy far away, produced by Robbie Lackritz (Feist, Bahamas, The Weather Station) and featuring legendary bassist Pino Palladino, renowned for his work with D’Angelo, Adele, The Who and Elton John, among others.
Speaking exclusively with The Luna Collective, Boy Golden shares on the album making process, “I love making music, but after a while, you really do need to put it out into the world. It's a part of the creative process. I have especially loved playing live shows, playing the songs for people in a room, and talking to people about the music.”
Best of Our Possible Lives is twelve songs of self-discovery that solidify Boy Golden as one of roots music’s most singular singer songwriters. Uniting the distant universes of 80s folk pop and 90s country, Boy Golden collides influences including edgy modern indie rock, a swaggering slice of sonic exploration.
The lead single from the album, “Suffer”, has topped the Billboard Canada Modern Rock Chart spent 9 weeks (and running) at the top of the Alternative radio charts and single “Cowboy Dreams” feat. Cat Clyde is climbing the US radio charts, including #8 on the Americana Singles Chart.
Best of Our Possible Lives has gained support tastemakers including Atwood Magazine who published an essay with by Boy Golden, alongside rave reviews from PopMatters describing the sound as “a chameleonic delight, gliding from dusty folk and gut-bucket blues to shimmering indie rock.” No Depression praised how the “dirty, cosmic guitars swirl around similarly muddy drums that emit a transcendent throb.” Twangville exclaimed the album is “Magnetic and engaging,” and Lavender Sound astutely surmised, “to experience emotional rollercoasters, he suggests, is inevitable. It’s how we choose to move through them that makes us human.”
Boy Golden is kicking off his headline tour dates next week including Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle and more. He also has upcoming dates supporting Cat Clyde (featured on Best of Our Possible Lives), and festival performances this summer. See all tour dates listed below.
Who is Boy Golden? On the one hand it is moniker for a mysterious new artist, who is building buzz following major support for track "KD and Lunch Meat" from his debut album which hit #1 at Alternative radio in 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,” “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.
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.
TRACKLIST
Suffer
The Matter at Hand
New Orleans
Like a Child
Chickadee
Cowboy Dreams - feat Cat Clyde
Bad Habits
Moontan - feat Cat Clyde
Eyes
Meadowsweet
You Got It
Best of Our Possible Lives
TOUR DATES
April 28 Tue - Los Angeles, CA - The Moroccan Lounge
April 29 Wed - Folsom, CA - Folsom Hotel
May 1 Fri - Portland, OR - The Showdown
May 2 Sat - Seattle, WA - Barboza
May 3 Sun - Spokane, WA - The District Bar
May 14 Thu - Washington, DC - Union Stage*
May 15 Fri - Wayne, PA - 118 NORTH*
May 16 Sat - Amagansett, NY - The Stephen Talkhouse*
May 17 Sun - Brooklyn, NY - Baby’s All Right*
May 19 Tue - Cambridge, MA - Club Passim*
May 20 Wed - Bennington County, VT - Billsville House Concerts*
* supporting Cat Clyde
Upcoming Festivals
June 20 & 21 - Telluride, CO - Telluride Bluegrass Festival
June 25 - Milwaukee, WI - Summerfest
June 27 - Sisters, OR - Big Ponderoo
July 2 - 5 - Quincy, CA - High Sierra Music Festival
July 5 - Calgary, AB - Stampede
July 7 - Vancouver, BC - FIFA Fan Fest
July 11 - Saint Paul, MN - Minnesota Country Club Festival
July 30 - Aug 2 - Happy Valley, OR - Pickathon
Sept 11 - Toronto, ON - Indie 88 The Bowl
