MJ Lenderman has shared the music video for ‘Wristwatch’, a standout from his 2024 album Manning Fireworks. Directed by filmmaker Lance Bangs, the clip sees Lenderman driving a pickup truck filled with basketballs and inflatable pool rafts as he keeps crashing into an overpass. Watch it below.
“I had been drawn to make things with Jake for a while, and spent the late summer listening to the songs that would make up Manning Fireworks,” Bangs said in a press release. “The imagery of characters caught in persistence without progress that has recurred in his writing was there in “Wristwatch” and that song was the one I went back to the most while listening to the batch of recordings. I had seen low clearance bridges in this part of North Carolina in my past travels, a mismatch between the train trestles that were built in the first half of the 20th Century and the modern 13ft height of most tractor trailers. Durham has a notorious one called the ‘Canopener’ that is featured on a website and Youtube channel ‘11foot8.com‘ by Jurgen Henn, who has captured 186 crashes since April of 2008. I took measurements and designed plans to add a few more crashes to Jurgen’s tally.”
MJ Lenderman and The Wind are set to embark on the first leg of their 2025 EU/UK tour this spring, wrapping up with a performance at Primavera Sound in Barcelona. Last month, Lenderman shared a cover of This Is Lorelei’s ‘Dancing in the Club’, which made our best songs of March list.
