Odd Beholder – Honest Work – LP (recycled vinyl)

Odd Beholder – Honest Work – LP (recycled vinyl)On the new concept album "Honest Work", Odd Beholder tell stories from the adult lives of working people in the middle and lower classes. They work night shifts in hospitals, pump breast milk in storage rooms, wonder whether they should get a prescription for Ritalin, are summoned to the bosss office for wearing the wrong clothes, or take a day off just to walk barefoot by a lake. Lyrically, "Honest Work" can best be described as petty bourgeois

On the new concept album "Honest Work", Odd Beholder tell stories from the adult lives of working people in the middle and lower classes. They work night shifts in hospitals, pump breast milk in storage rooms, wonder whether they should get a prescription for Ritalin, are summoned to the boss’s office for wearing the wrong clothes, or take a day off just to walk barefoot by a lake.

Lyrically, "Honest Work" can best be described as “petty-bourgeois surrealism.” It’s an album about people trying – and often failing – to navigate systems that reduce them to anonymous data points, employees, and consumers. The album is full of desperate prayers: “Doctor, I think that I’ve got a disease” (Focus Disease), “Taking a day off… don’t even remember my own name” (Remind Me), “I serenade on company time” (Lean Dreams). In these lines, you can feel the dull ache of a generation whose emotional lives are filtered through corporate HR language and online shopping carts.

LP comes on recycled black 140g vinyl in a black deluxe poly-lined inner sleeve. Includes folded A2 poster w/ lyrics.

/// Tracks
A01 Intenet Famous
A02 Lean Dreams
A03 Ring Light
A04 Wrong Magic
A05 Second Bear
B01 Drive
B02 Focus Desease
B03 Like A Chore
B04 Remind Me
B05 Night Shift