{"product_id":"hecks-my-star-vinyl-lp","title":"My Star - Vinyl LP","description":"Chicago trio The Hecks have been at it since 2012, starting out as the duo of guitarist Andy Mosiman \u0026amp; 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) \u0026amp; ended up joining the band In 2017. The band's journey to the end result of \"My Star\" - 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 \u0026amp; keyboardist Jeff Graupner, whose synthesized squiggles added some welcome heft \u0026amp; swagger to the band's tunes. After reworking \u0026amp; rearranging much of the new material to accommodate Graupner, the band scrapped the recordings \u0026amp; rebuilt them from the ground up, incorporating Graupner's skills at the keys. The results speak for themselves, as \"My Star\" is a gigantic leap forward for the band, absorbing everything from \"Manscape\"-era Wire to Paisley Park nu-funk to abstract new wave \u0026amp; art rock plucked straight from the Cold Storage playbook. Much of \"My Star\"s 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 \"Zipper\"s intertwining guitar jabs \u0026amp; synth lines herk \u0026amp; jerk so rapidly it's liable to break your neck, while lead track \"So 4 Real\"s 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. \"Heat Wave\" dials it back, reveling in romantic washes of synth and flange \u0026amp; it's yearning refrain of \"It's tearing me apart, ripping out my heart again\"; a captivating, slow burning ballad unlike anything the band has done before. Meanwhile album closer (and title track) \"My Star\" is so cinematic, it feels like the lost end credits scene to a heartfelt teen drama, with it's end coda taking up the bulk of the song's near-eight minute run time. \"My Star\" is designed to make you move, you just have to let it.","brand":"Hecks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46972868919471,"sku":"630125982563","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshized.com\/products\/hecks-my-star-vinyl-lp","provider":"Freshized","version":"1.0","type":"link"}