In glendale tim heidecker12/23/2023 ![]() The pose of rudderlessness and effortlessness, as always, suits him. As with his brilliant comedy series “On Cinema at the Cinema” and “Decker,” Heidecker’s dry delivery and the seemingly strict template belie how much craft is actually going on under the surface. “When I Get Up” is an incessantly upbeat pop song that makes a point of going nowhere. In the place of emotional specificity or raw nerves, he gives us spot-on genre exercises (the On the Beach drag of “Finally Getting Over,” the sunny jangle of “Insomnia”) and a few keyed-in moments of inspiration. He’s been clear about this record being “non-autobiographical.” It was inspired by a rumor spread by right-wing trolls about his wife leaving him, and the pain in the songs rarely feels like more than just a writing prompt. Of course, there’s one thing that all those breakup albums have that Heidecker does not: actual heartbreak. You sense that he sourced his pain from a long history of classic rock bummer anthems, and there’s something inherently entertaining in hearing him carve out a space among them. Produced by Foxygen’s Jonathan Rado to sound like the spur-of-the-moment brainstorming session that it probably was, Heidecker’s latest album, What the Brokenhearted Do…, captures vignettes of the newly divorced in all their moments of crisis and stasis. It helps that Heidecker’s musical influences-Los Angeles heroes like Randy Newman, Harry Nilsson, and Warren Zevon-are known for making their ugliest thoughts sound clever and sweet. ![]() ![]() ![]() A breakup album seems like the logical next step for this fascination. ![]()
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