Tim Heidecker has shared the latest single from his upcoming album High School, and it's a partial rumination on that tentpole of teenage drama — the schoolyard fight.
"Punch in the Gut" is another taste of High School's sunny soft-rock oeuvre, and according to Heidecker, it came about "while thinking about how Warren Zevon might approach a high school parking lot, high noon style showdown. But as I worked it, I recalled an incident where a friend of mine was visiting my school and was falsely accused of stealing. He was Black and it felt like profiling to me. There's a lot of him in the song 'Buddy' too."
"Buddy" was released last month. High School — which was produced by Heidecker, Drew Erickson, Eric D. Johnson and Mac DeMarco — arrives June 24 on Spacebomb Records.
Listen to "Punch in the Gut" below.
"Punch in the Gut" is another taste of High School's sunny soft-rock oeuvre, and according to Heidecker, it came about "while thinking about how Warren Zevon might approach a high school parking lot, high noon style showdown. But as I worked it, I recalled an incident where a friend of mine was visiting my school and was falsely accused of stealing. He was Black and it felt like profiling to me. There's a lot of him in the song 'Buddy' too."
"Buddy" was released last month. High School — which was produced by Heidecker, Drew Erickson, Eric D. Johnson and Mac DeMarco — arrives June 24 on Spacebomb Records.
Listen to "Punch in the Gut" below.
