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 theself 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.”

Raised in the California neighborhood once home to Neil Young, Gram Parsons, and countless other Americana music icons, Remy Sher is as much a product of his Laurel Canyon upbringing as he is of studying songwriters like John Prine and Jason Isbell. Sher’s 2023 release “The Things You'll Forget” is at the crossing of classic folk and modern alt-country, placing storytelling at the forefront of timeless yet fresh sounds of mandolin, pedal steel, fiddle and acoustic guitar. The EP “Feet on the Ground” takes a more laid-back approach, with a deeper dive into the raw and acoustic side of his songwriting. Devoting several months to writing and nothing else after a partner “felt the heat” and took off running, “Nevermind” became the lead single to “Heat,” Sher’s full-length debut. Inspired by both the lush, acoustic sounds of 1970s storytellers like Don Williams, and the gritty alt-country movement of the 2000s, the album steers Sher’s songwriting in a new direction. A less on-the- nose, mandolin-led Americana approach than his previous works, Sher's "Heat" is a slow burning record that experiments with more distortion, pianos, and screeching fiddles. His most authentic record to date, produced by Ben Schwab (Sylvie) in Los Angeles, California, Remy Sher’s “Heat” is set for release in 2026.