Tim Heidecker – “Nothing” (Feat. Weyes Blood)
Tim Heidecker, the actor and comedian best known as one half of Tim & Eric, has lately been using his spare time to make ’70s-style singer-songwriter records. Next month, Heidecker will release Fear Of Death, a new album that he recorded with an all-star band of contributors, including Weyes Blood’s Natalie Mering, Drew Erickson, the Lemon Twigs’ Brian and Michael D’Addario, and Foxygen’s Jonathan Rado. We already posted the title track. This morning, Heidecker has shared another song.
Heidecker co-wrote “Nothing” with Natalie Mering, an old friend and collaborator. The two of them sing it together in harmony, really belting out the words over a big, juicy piano line. They sing about being overwhelmed by the certainty and finality of death: “Nothing, that’s what it amounts to, they say/ A black void waiting down the road for us one day/ We’re all gonna die alone.”
In a press release, Heidecker says:
I wanted to write a religious sounding song about agnosticism. I wrote it a little poppier/jauntier, but working with Natalie and Drew [Erickson], we smoothed it out into something more haunting and (in my opinion) beautiful. We crammed the session into the end of an overdub day/night, just the three of us doing it live with Natalie adding those incredible angel harmonies over the bridge. Drew and [Jonathan] Rado later added all sorts of goodness to it. The second verse is a very literal description of my experience at the SXSW premiere of Us. I’m pretty proud of this one in general. I hope it delivers some goosebumps.
Listen below.
Fear Of Death is out 9/25 on Spacebomb. Pre-order it here.