There’s a quiet glow running through Best of Our Possible Lives, the latest full-lengther from Winnipeg singer-songwriter Boy Golden: it’s rich without being showy, thoughtful without drifting off. When asked, the artist explains the album’s title: “The lives we have at this moment are our best possible lives. We cannot change the past. We cannot know the future. All we have is this moment right here.”

The twelve new songs wrestle with ordinary suffering (political disillusionment, bad habits, loneliness, grief), but they reframe it as shared ground rather than private failure. Again and again, the lyrics land on presence, love, and chosen connection as quiet acts of resistance: if nothing lasts and the world’s a mess, then the only answer is to show up fully, forgive yourself, and claim this imperfect moment as the best you’ve got.

Over warm alt-country grooves there are always those strangely comforting vocals we’ve been fans of from the beginning. The follow-up to 2024’s For Eden LP once again offers philosophy you can hum along to, and maybe that’s exactly what we need right now.

Best of Our Possible Lives—produced by Robbie Lackritz—is out now digitally, on CD and vinyl LP, through Six Shooter Records.

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