A concept album about the end of the world and the everyday travails of existence, Tim Heidecker’s folksy and loose sixth solo LP Slipping Away finds him offering dystopian short stories alongside vivid workaday musings. It’s both his most ambitious and most personally revealing record yet.
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Tim Heidecker :: Buddy
With the buoyant folk pop of “Buddy” Tim Heidecker recounts an achingly familiar tale of a burnout friend whose whole life story seems predestined: “Everybody could see that you were gone, gone, gone/Gone before you’re gone.” It’s from his forthcoming long player, High School.
Transmissions :: Yves Jarvis (plus Vic Berger & Doug Lussenhop)
Incoming transmission from…Yves Jarvis. The singer/songwriter/producer’s latest is called Sundry Rock Song Stock, and it’s a blur of soft-focus pop and shimmering melodic mirages. He joined us from the Tree Museum in Ontario to discuss the disparate influences of Joni Mitchell, Bill Bruford, and Kanye. Plus, Vic Berger and Doug Lussenhop of Tim Heidecker’s Office Hours join us to discuss their new audio/visual sonic collage, Drop Concert: The Motion Picture.
A Terrible Word Called Kismet :: Tim Heidecker on Fear of Death
On Tim Heidecker’s Fear of Death, one of the funniest, most absurd, surreal, and reliable entertainers on the planet gets serious, about life’s truest inevitability. But let’s be clear: Heidecker isn’t all doom and gloom. In fact, the record’s rather buoyant and spirited, uniquely and retroactively American in a way—cynical and sharp as a Salem cigarette.
Transmissions Podcast :: Tim Heidecker/John Coltrane ’58/Johnathan Rice at Gold Diggers
You’re tuned into the Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions podcast…This month, we bring you the uncut edition of our conversation with Tim Heidecker, explaining the classic inspirations behind his latest LP, What The Broken Hearted Do. Also, a review of the John Coltrane boxset, Coltrane ’58: The Prestige Recordings. And to close out, Johnathan Rice live at Gold Diggers, discussing both his haikus—optimized for the social media age—and new album, The Long Game.
Tim Heidecker :: What The Brokenhearted Do
Tim Heidecker returns with a fake divorce album written in reaction to vindictive rumors spread by online trolls that his wife had left him.
Tim Heidecker :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
There’s a pretty good chance that the person you think of when you think of Tim Heidecker isn’t the real Tim Heidecker. Since emerging in the early 2000s with Adult Swim ‘s […]
Transmissions Podcast :: Voyager Golden Record/Tim Heidecker/Jesus People Music
Welcome to the January installment of Aquarium Drunkard’s recurring Transmissions podcast, a series of interviews and audio esoterica from Aquarium Drunkard. For our first episode of 2018, we explore three […]