Odd Beholder – Honest Work

Description

On the new concept album Honest Work, ten songs tell stories from the adult lives of working people in the middle and lower classes. They worknight shifts in hospitals, pump breast milk instorage rooms, wonder whether they should get aprescription for Ritalin, are summoned to thebosss office for wearing the wrong clothes, or takea day off just to walk barefoot by a lake.

Lyrically, Honest Work can best be described aspetty-bourgeois surrealism. Its an album aboutpeople trying – and often failing – to navigatesystems that reduce them to anonymous datapoints, employees, and consumers.

The album is full of desperate prayers: Doctor, Ithink that Ive got a disease (Focus Disease);Taking a day off… dont even remember my ownname (Remind Me); I serenade on companytime (Lean Dreams). In these lines, you can feelthe dull ache of a generation whose emotionallives are filtered through corporate HR languageand online shopping carts.

LP pressed onto black recycled vinyl.

Tracklist

Internet Famous
Lean Dreams
Ring Light
Wrong Magic
Second Beer
Drive
Focus Disease
Like A Chore
Remind Me
Night Shift