My Star, by The Hecks

My Star

by The Hecks

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Jimbles Cant stop dancing to this track in my head! Favorite track: Flash.

mw Imagine a modern DEVO, but even better musicianship. Every track is great. But you’ll get the idea from the first 3 seconds of Zipper Favorite track: Zipper.

eraseher_ Witnessing this track performed live is truly something else. Favorite track: The King Is Close.

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1.	Zipper 01:59	buy track
2.	Chopper 02:43	buy track
3.	Flash 04:49	buy track
4.	Heat Wave 03:59	buy track
5.	The Fool 01:48	buy track
6.	Chinatown 03:33	buy track
7.	So 4 Real 02:56	buy track
8.	The King Is Close 02:06	buy track
9.	Josef Josef 02:59	buy track
10.	My Star 07:50	buy track

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Chicago quartet 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 shortly thereafter. The band's journey to the end result of "My Star" - their second album - has taken them nearly 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 integrate 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 "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 & 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 & synth lines herk & 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 & its 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 its end coda taking up the bulk of the song's near-eight minute run time. "My Star" is designed to move you and make you move, you just have to let it.

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released October 11, 2019

Recorded at Jamdek & Public House Records
Mastered by Mikey Young

Dave V: Vocals / Electric Guitar / Electric Bass Guitar / Engineering
Andy M: Vocals / Electric Guitar / Electric Bass Guitar / Drum Machine / Synthsizer
Jeff G: Vocals / Synthesizer
Zach H: Vocals / Drums / Electric Drums / Drum Machine

"The King Is Close" features Maria Jacobson

Album design & lettering: Studio Super

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Sep 2023
My Star

Oct 2019
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Sep 2016
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Trust & Order 7''

Mar 2013

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