The all-star band on Fear of Death includes The Lemon Twigs’ Brian & Michael D’Addario, frequent collaborator Jonathan Rado, and string arrangements by Spacebomb’s Trey Pollard (Foxygen, Bedouine, The Waterboys, Natalie Prass). I think she could harmonize with a doorstop and make it sound dreamy.' “He knew all the right people to come play with us, and he had impeccable musical chops and taste! And Natalie, I believe, is a generational singer/songwriter, a major talent who glided into this project with so much grace and a good attitude. “Drew was the perfect co-conspirator,” Heidecker says. “This was a Thursday night,” recalls Heidecker. Months later at a Weyes Blood record release show, Mering’s friend and keyboardist Drew Erickson (Jonathan Wilson, Dawes) proposed that the three of them go into the studio together. But their story began earlier that year when Heidecker, having just become familiar with the singer, hosted her as a guest on his Office Hours Live podcast. We first saw Heidecker and Weyes Blood’s Natalie Mering performing together in the summer of 2019 when a video of the pair singing “Let it Be” backstage at a charity event went viral. 'It took a minute for me to stand back and look at what I was talking about to realize that, yes, I am now a middle-aged man and my subconscious is screaming at me: 'You are getting old, dude! You are not going to live forever! Put down that cheeseburger!’' “I didn’t know that Fear of Death was going to be so focused on death when I was writing it,” Heidecker says. Just like that one with its morose theme of a contentious breakup, the new album puts Heidecker squarely in the tradition of comedians and actors like Steve Martin, Hugh Laurie, and Donald Glover, eschewing his funny side in his music and leaving the jokes for the screen. This is a Serious Album about Serious Topics – a doomed future, abandoning life in the city, and, you guessed it, the inevitability of death – and without a warning, those feelings might just sneak up on you.įear of Death is the follow-up to 2019’s What the Brokenhearted Do…, which chronicles a fictional divorce from his wife and the accompanying depression. That’s what Tim Heidecker warns on Fear of Death’s opening track, “Prelude to Feeling.” And he means it. Will Arnett as Calico Jack, a recently deposed pirate captain and former friend of Blackbeard.Get ready, because you’re about to feel.Kristen Johnston as The Widow Evelyn Higgins.Nick Kroll as Gabriel, a French aristocrat and Antoinette’s partner/brother.Kristen Schaal as Antoinette, a French aristocrat and Gabriel’s partner/sister.Gary Farmer as Chief Mabo, an Indigenous leader who is wary of colonizers.Boris McGiver as Father Bonnet, Stede’s emotionally abusive father.Claudia O’Doherty as Mary Bonnet, Stede’s wife.Fred Armisen as Geraldo, a shifty barkeep in the Republic of Pirates and one of Jackie’s husbands.Leslie Jones as Spanish Jackie, a powerful and feared pirate captain with 19 husbands.Taika Waititi as Edward “Ed” Teach / Blackbeard, the legendary pirate captain, who has recently grown weary of his station.Samba Schutte as Roach, the ship’s cook on the Revenge.Nat Faxon as The Swede, a crewmate on the Revenge.Kinnear also plays Nigel’s brother, Admiral Chauncey Badminton. Rory Kinnear as Captain Nigel Badminton, a British naval captain who bullied Stede when both were children.David Fane as Fang, a member of Blackbeard’s crew who joins him on the Revenge.Guz Khan as Ivan, a member of Blackbeard’s crew who joins him on the Revenge.Matthew Maher as Black Pete, an irritable pirate aboard the Revenge who claims to have crewed with Blackbeard.Kristian Nairn as Wee John Feeney, a crewmate on the Revenge obsessed with fire.With their friend Oluwande’s help, they join the crew of the Revenge in disguise and posing as a mute. Vico Ortiz as Jim Jimenez (previously known as Bonifacia), a skilled fighter who has a bounty on their head for killing one of Jackie’s husbands.Nathan Foad as Lucius Spriggs, a scribe on the Revenge tasked with keeping a record of its adventures.Con O’Neill as Israel “Izzy” Hands, Blackbeard’s ruthless first mate.Samson Kayo as Oluwande Boodhari, a level-headed crewmate on the Revenge who is sympathetic to Stede and tries to steer him away from danger.Joel Fry as Frenchie, a crewmate on the Revenge who often sings of the crew’s adventures.Ewen Bremner as Nathaniel Buttons, a grizzled pirate on the Revenge whom Stede often calls upon for advice.Rhys Darby as Stede Bonnet, captain of the Revenge and the self-proclaimed “Gentleman Pirate.”.

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