Moonstone Cowboy: Boy Golden Announces Best of Our Possible Lives, out February 13, 2026
Today, artist/songwriter/producer Boy Golden announces Best of Our Possible Lives, a new album arriving February 13, 2026 on Six Shooter Records. As sonically gratifying as it is thought-provoking, Best of Our Possible Lives is a transformational work, produced by Robbie Lackritz (Feist, Bahamas, The Weather Station) and featuring legendary bassist Pino Palladino.
Out now, opening track and album thesis, “Suffer” challenges us to commune and connect. In Boy Golden’s worldview, which draws together his interests in meditation, Buddhism and art-making, suffering is not what drives us apart, but what knits us together. Messy and painful as it is, suffering gifts us the chance to be present for ourselves and others.
“I write songs to seek understanding,” says Boy Golden. “The song came when my ideals were being tested and shattered by the world as it is now. I hope that anyone listening to this song can come to the same conclusion that I did: if we only have this moment, what you do in this moment is who you are. Who do you want to be?”
Anthemic and defiant, “Suffer” is uniquely about our times, for our times. The accompanying video, directed by BNB Studios, spotlights the people and places that turn a neighbourhood into a community.
Recorded at Lucy’s Meat Market in Los Angeles, the new album’s diverse yet cohesive sound is a nod to the studio cast, starting with producer Robbie Lackritz (Feist, Bahamas, Weather Station). Best of Our Possible Lives includes contributions from 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.
Album highlights include the swampy, moody and resolutely idealistic “The Matter at Hand,” fuzzed-up rocker “Cowboy Dreams,” one of two new songs featuring Cat Clyde, powerful eulogy “Eyes,” and breezy folk rocker “Like a Child,” which urges us to be present, adaptable, and vulnerable.
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.”
With the release of Best of Our Possible Lives and major touring planned for 2026, Boy Golden is poised to build on recent successes including his debut JUNO Award nomination, bills with Jason Isbell, MJ Lenderman and Joshua Ray Walker, and producer credits including labelmate William Prince, CJ Wiley, FONTINE and more.
Six Shooter Records releases Best of Our Possible Lives on February 13, 2026.
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BEST OF OUR POSSIBLE LIVES TRACKLIST
1. Suffer
2. The Matter at Hand
3. New Orleans
4. Like a Child
5. Chickadee
6. Cowboy Dreams (feat. Cat Clyde)
7. Bad Habits
8. Moontan (feat. Cat Clyde)
9. Eyes
10. Meadowsweet
11. You Got It
12. Best of Our Possible Lives
TOUR DATES (opening for Birdtalker)
Sep 25 Thu - Bend, OR - Domino Room
Sep 26 Fri - Portland, OR - McMenamins Mission Theater
Sep 27 Sat - Seattle, WA - Tractor Tavern
Oct 2 Thu - Boise, ID - Neurolux Lounge
Oct 5 Sun - Teton Village, WY - Mangy Moose Steakhouse and Saloon
Oct 7 Tue - South Salt Lake, UT - The Commonwealth Room
Oct 9 Thu - Denver, CO - Bluebird Theater
Oct 10 Fri - Boulder, CO - eTown Hall
Tickets and details at boygolden.ca
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.”
