Hecks - The Hecks - VINYL LP

Chicago trio The Hecks have been at it since 2012, starting out as the duo of guitarist Andy Mosiman & Zach Hebert. The band drafted guitarist Dave Vettraino into the fold, a recording engineer who was recording the band's s/t debut (Trouble In Mind, 2016) & ended up joining the band In 2017. The band's journey to the end result of InchMy StarInch - their second album - has taken them three years. After recording an initial version of the album in 2017, The Hecks started gigging with new fourth member & keyboardist Jeff Graupner, whose synthesized squiggles added some welcome heft & swagger to the band's tunes. After reworking & rearranging much of the new material to accommodate Graupner, the band scrapped the recordings & rebuilt them from the ground up, incorporating Graupner's skills at the keys. The results speak for themselves, as InchMy StarInch is a gigantic leap forward for the band, absorbing everything from InchManscapeInch-era Wire to Paisley Park nu-funk to abstract new wave & art rock plucked straight from the Cold Storage playbook. Much of InchMy StarInchs ten tracks are designed to bewilder; the production is intentionally disorienting, with the mix tipped toward the treble, alternating from sparse to confoundingly dense at times, but never at a disservice to the songs themselves. Opener InchZipperInchs intertwining guitar jabs & synth lines herk & jerk so rapidly it's liable to break your neck, while lead track InchSo 4 RealInchs neon-laced dayglo soul ratchets up the mutant funk throb so tightly that the lilting, melodic guitar break at the chorus is a welcome dose of ear-candy. InchHeat WaveInch dials it back, reveling in romantic washes of synth and flange & it's yearning refrain of InchIt's tearing me apart, ripping out my heart againInch; a captivating, slow burning ballad unlike anything the band has done before. Meanwhile album closer (and titl

King of Heck - Kingo [VINYL LP] Black, Blue, Colored Vinyl date 07/29/2022

Vinyl LP pressing with digital download. HeCTA is the brainchild of Kurt Wagner, Ryan Norris and Scott Martin of Lambchop, but don't call it a Inchside-projectInch! HeCTA is rather an Inchexpanded universeInch! Exploring and experimenting with the idea of combining the notion of InchsongInch, elements from stand up comedy, electronic music and a shared love of the electronic form and it's many permutations, HeCTA and the album InchThe DietInch does not sound like anything these guys have done before. Using the idea of combining the notion of InchsongInch and elements from stand-up comedy, and electronic music and a shared love of the electronic form and it's many permutations, HeCTA respectfully, playfully explored and experimented to make The Diet. Album Tracks 1. Till Someone Gets Hurt 2. Sympathy for the Auto Industry 3. Prettyghetto 4. Like You're Worth It 5. The Concept 6. Change Is in Our Pocket 7. We Are Glistening 8. Give Us Your Names 9. We Bitched We Bovvered and We Buildered