From any other outfit, it would be a solid effort, with horns and keys providing muscle to every song. They’re so at odds with their otherwise unassuming instrumentation, and fit in so neatly among their counterparts, that you can miss them on a casual first pass.Īll jokes aside, In Glendale actually is a pretty slick rock record. Likewise, “I Dare You To Watch Me Sleep” reads like a creepy letter from a stranger. Heidecker begins “Ghost in My Bed” with “I put your head in a plastic bag and I buried it under the Hollywood sign,” before detailing the thoughts of a killer who was probably just a regular guy having a good time before the whole murder situation happened. Rather, it’s about the extremely boring real-life shit that most of us deal with every day-to which Heidecker offers a literal nod with “Cleaning Up The Dog Shit.”īut while all the songs are fun, there’s an occasional dark streak that elicits nervous laughter as much as anything else. In Glendale isn’t a riff on the sort of rock that glorifies the difficult common-man endeavors of the American working class. “Work From Home,” though, is a magnificent tribute to the days when you’re too sick (let’s be real: hungover) to function at work, so you promise to “work from home,” but you’re equally useless there. Late in the record, “I Saw Nicolas Cage” feels like a familiar version of the kind of thrilling celebrity non-encounter that one of your relatives recounts at every family gathering. Heidecker declares his love for the suburb over anywhere else in America on the opening title track, and without knowing his résumé, it would be easy to mistake “In Glendale” for a painfully earnest tune written by a dad who still desperately wants to be cool. In Glendale doesn’t quite have such a concrete unifying concept, but it does focus on “normcore” in all its glory-or, more accurately, its lack thereof. The ten-track LP arrives via Rado Records, a new Jagjaguwar imprint from Foxygen’s Jonathan Rado.
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