The Older I Get, The Funnier I Was (Limited LP)

 
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Whitmer Thomas
The Older I Get, The Funnier I Was (Limited LP)

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Release Date: Friday 21 October 2022

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The Older I Get, the Funnier I Was, which follows Thomas' brilliant 2020 HBO special The Golden One and his Can't Believe You're Happy Here EP released earlier this year, surveys a range of emotion, and offers a broad sonic palette, moving between pop punk, electro, and the obvious influence of the singer-songwriters he grew up listening to in early childhood. It conjures the ennui of Bright Eyes alongside the barefaced storytelling of John Prine, the overstuffed lists of Fred Thomas with the lackadaisical humour of Colleen Green, among many others.

Thomas attributes the dexterity of the record to Duterte, who recorded and engineered most of it in addition to serving up plenty of encouragement when Thomas got down on the process. "As a comic, I used to test out new songs during sets to see if the funny bits were hitting, but since I wrote this in isolation, I ended up writing lyrics and worrying less about making jokes," Thomas says. That said, the album's plenty funny. Stand-out and lead single "Rigamarole" opens with a Thomas-voiced infomercial that recalls his oft-cited lookalike Jim Carrey as the Grinch, before launching into a buoyant pop song about being depressed.

Limited transparent pink coloured vinyl.

Tracks:

1. Most Likely
2. Rigamarole
3. Everything That Feels Good Is Bad
4. Big Truck
5. Pop Fly
6. Cooler When I'm Sick
7. Pinwheel
8. Stick Around
9. South Florida
10. navel gazey
11. Bushwhacked