The room is cluttered with microphones and instruments-it’s a place where things get done. “Do you want to see it?” he asks, and pans his camera around. Now he lives in a bungalow next to the main house with his girlfriend Karly Hartzman, leader of the rock band Wednesday. It’s a house-or pair of houses, actually-where the musician and his bandmates have been living, writing, and recording since 2017, when he moved in with his drummer to make an album.
MJ Lenderman Zooms in from the spot in Asheville where everything started and it all still happens.