What The Brokenhearted Do...
Tim HeideckerMCA
- Illegal
- When I Get Up
- What the Brokenhearted Do
- Funeral Shoes
- I'm Not Good Enough
- Sometimes It Happens This Way
MCB
- Insomnia
- Coffee's Gone Cold
- I Don't Think About You (Much Anymore)
- Finally Getting Over
- Life's Too Long
Working with producer Jonathan Rado (Father John Misty, Whitney, Weyes Blood), Heidecker has delivered his most accomplished album to date. In addition to being absolutely gutting, the soulful I'm Not Good Enough is a masterclass in less-is-more songwriting. In just over two minutes, the soulful dirge brushes confidently against a big, Hey Jude melody before gently coming to a close and leaving your wanting more. It beckons you over to the turn table to reset the needle. The jaunty, Nilsson-nodding live favourite When I Get Up is perhaps one more joyful tunes about crushing depression we’ve heard. For a song about succumbing to the void in your bedridden funk, it’s got a lot of pep in its step. The closing piano ballad Life’s Too Long, is as close to a resolution as Heidecker will give us. “Life’s too long to stay in love,” he croons, a mournful organ the songs only accouterment. Enjoy the bittersweet moment and be thankful that Heidecker wraps up What The Brokenhearted Do... as he does, because next chapter for this divorcee is probably a midlife crisis full of neck tattoos and sports car debt.