Go With Your Flow: Boy Golden Shares “Like a Child”
Best of Our Possible Lives out February 13, 2026
On Tour with William Prince (Canada), Cat Clyde (USA) in 2026
“Suffer” #1 at Canadian Alternative Radio for Nine Weeks
Photo credit: @paigesarastudio
Boy Golden shares “Like a Child,” a song that seeks the Taoist harmony of our newborn state, along with a new video that captures its tender and tuneful vibe. The final single in advance of the release of new album Best of Our Possible Lives, out February 13, 2026, the gentle folk pop flow of “Like a Child” mirrors the sweet innocence of its message, which is about unguarding the self, accepting softness and vulnerability as the countermeasure to grief and suffering.
“Imagine your life as a river, flowing, changing,” says Boy Golden. “Sometimes, you run into rocks in the river. Obstacles. If you hit a rock and get stuck, the river will rush on while you remain in place. This song is about being soft. To be soft, to be present, to be adaptable, to be vulnerable, to be ‘Like A Child’; this is how we flow around the rocks, this is how we erode them. Eventually, the rocks become smooth, and you will forget they were ever there as you flow effortlessly past them.
Songs from Best of Our Possible Lives have already found their own smooth passage as “Suffer” continues its hold on #1 at Canadian Alternative Radio for the ninth week running and newest single “Cowboy Dreams” (feat. Cat Clyde) is on its way up the charts in the USA. With recent coverage from Rolling Stone, FLOOD, Holler, Consequence of Sound and more, sessions by GemsOnVHS and Littlest Honky Tonk (alongside Post Malone and Sierra Farrell) and upcoming touring with William Prince across Canada and Cat Clyde in the USA in April/May, Boy Golden continues to build toward the album release date and beyond.
The album’s title, drawing both from the wisdom of Kris Kristofferson and German philosophy, reveals where Boy Golden lands in a centuries-old debate: “The lives we have at this moment are our best possible lives,” he says. “We cannot change the past. We cannot know the future. All we have is this moment right here.”
Six Shooter Records releases Best of Our Possible Lives on February 13, 2026.
TOUR DATES
02/28/26 Saskatoon, SK - TCU Place*
03/01/26 Calgary, AB - Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium*
03/02/26 Kelowna, BC - Community Theatre*
03/03/26 Victoria, BC - Royal Theatre*
03/04/26 Vancouver, BC - Queen Elizabeth Theatre*
03/06/26 Edmonton, AB - Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium*
03/07/26 Regina, SK - Conexus Arts Centre - Capital Auto Theatre*
03/12/26 Halifax, NS - Rebecca Cohn Auditorium*
03/13/26 Fredericton, NB - The Playhouse*
03/14/26 Saint John, NB - Imperial Theatre*
03/15/26 Moncton, NB - Capitol Theatre*
03/17/26 Montreal, QC - Club Soda*
03/18/26 Kingston, ON - Grand Theatre*
03/19/26 Kitchener, ON - Centre in the Square*
03/20/26 Ottawa, ON - Southam Hall*
03/21/26 Toronto, ON - Massey Hall*
04/01/26 Lawrence, KS - Bottleneck^
04/02/26 Columbia, MO - Rose Music Hall^
04/03/26 St. Louis, MO - The Old Rock House^
04/04/26 Nashville, TN - Cannery Hall^
04/06/26 Louisville, KY - The Monarch Music and Arts Community^
04/08/26 Indianapolis, IN - HI-FI^
04/09/26 Chicago, IL - Schubas Tavern^
04/10/26 Davenport, IA - Raccoon Motel^
04/11/26 St. Paul, MN - Turf Club^
05/14/26 Washington, DC - Union Stage^
05/15/26 Wayne, PA - 118 North^
05/16/26 Amagansett, NY - The Stephen Talkhouse^
05/17/26 Brooklyn, NY - Baby’s All Right^
05/19/26 Cambridge, MA - Club Passim^
05/20/26 Bennington County, VT - Billsville House Concerts^
*w/ William Prince
^w/ Cat Clyde
ABOUT BOY GOLDEN
A moonstone glow infuses Boy Golden’s Best of Our Possible Lives, an album that reveals its properties - intuition, emotional balance and transformation - through twelve songs of self-discovery. With Best of Our Possible Lives, songwriter/producer Boy Golden’s artistic approach is as philosophical as it is musical. This new work finds him mid-journey, on a quest for honesty with a willingness to examine and accept the self as it was, as it is, and as it can be.
Buoyant, smooth and disarming, as a whole Best of Our Possible Lives draws lines from the Tulsa sound to swampy New Orleans folk. With the lo-fi mystery of mk.gee, the laid-back swagger of MJ Lenderman and the lyrical intimacy of Waxhatachee, Boy Golden’s music is fresh, observational and honest. His melodies wax nostalgia for the giants (think Paul Simon, Tom Petty and J.J. Cale), yet ring true as the work of a young artist, right now.
Who is Boy Golden? A conduit for creation, this artistic persona is both an abstraction and a distillation. A shortcut to the flow state, perhaps, Boy Golden grants access to an inner world that can only be known through songwriting. His previous three albums, which include the wistful For Eden, rollicking For Jimmy and debut album, Boy Golden’s lemon yellow leisure suited Church of Better Daze, have served as a psychic clearing of way for Best of Our Possible Lives. “Each new body of work I have finished has pushed me personally towards greater acceptance of myself as a whole person.”
The new album’s diverse yet cohesive sound is a nod to the studio cast, starting with producer Robbie Lackritz (Feist, Bahamas, Weather Station). The making of Best of Our Possible Lives brought Boy Golden to Lucy’s Meat Market in Los Angeles with Pino Palladino (D’Angelo), Abe Rounds (Meshell Ndegeocello), Gabe Noel (Father John Misty), and Joseph Shabason (Destroyer) alongside Church of Better Daze founding members FONTINE and Austin Parachoniak.
