WATCH: Wonderlick Shares New Single “Let Id Out”

New album, Undisciplined, out April 5th

February 2, 2024March 15, 2024 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2024, Jay Blumenfield, Let Id Out, Too Much Joy, Undisciplined, Wonderlick

Tim Quirk and Jay Blumenfield are back in 2024 as the dynamic duo Wonderlick.

Their new album, Undisciplined, is out on April 5th. It was predominantly finished in two separate weekend sessions last summer at Rollercoaster Recordings in Burbank, California – a home studio overseen by David Newton, who Tim and Jay befriended back in 1992 when their other band, Too Much Joy, was touring with Dave’s group, The Mighty Lemon Drops.

That decades-old friendship no doubt fostered an environment which inspired the music to flow with ease, going wherever the notion took them. There’s elements of New Wave (“Self-Portrait with Bottle of Wine”), Country (“Letting Spiders Live”) and electronic pop (“Otis Redding’s Disco Album”) interspersed within the balance of melodic hooks and power pop crunch that makes Wonderlick such a treasure of the new millennium.

Rock & Roll Globe is honored to premiere the new video for Undisciplined’s latest single “Let Id Out.” Mr. Quirk so graciously shared some thoughts with us about the song and the clip.

“’Let Id Out’ is about embracing our inner demons rather than running away from them,” he explains. “Sure, sometimes disaster can ensue, but you can also screw yourself up by repressing your strongest, scariest desires. Undisciplined as a whole grapples with how to be a good person in a meaningless world, so this particular track starts by wondering what might happen if you simply didn’t bother. Maybe you’d just get wasted and have a lot of great sex, or maybe you’d assassinate Trump. Could go either way.”

Wonderlick Undisciplined, self-released 2024

Quirk mentioned to us that “Let Id Out” is the fourth single the duo has released from Undisciplined.

“We’re releasing a song a month in the run up to the album release, and trying to make a video for each one, because the window of attention even the most wildly popular artists can get for a new album is depressingly short,” he explains. “But we depleted the Wonderlick bank account just finishing the record, so we also have to find ways to do all that for as close to free as possible. I suppose we could have just found a compelling photo and superimposed the lyrics over it, but I get terribly bored watching things like that, so instead we challenged ourselves to illustrate the lyrics, too. That required a couple of weeks of feeding each line into different AI video generators and/or royalty-free stock video websites, then taking the results we liked best and trying to make them cohere, somehow.”

In fact, it only cost the band $14.99 to make the video for “Let Id Out.”

“I showed an early cut to a friend whose opinion I value — a director who shot a Wonderlick video back in the aughts — and she kind of hated it, especially how on the nose a lot of the clips are,” he admits. “But I’m unembarrassed about that, because our ids are NOT subtle. She asked me if I really thought handcuffs, getting stoned and same sex couples are taboo, and I said on the contrary, I think the way we amuse ourselves as kids and the way we do so as adults are all equally innocent.

“So: embrace your inner, tantrum-throwing kid. And let him kiss whomever he wants, however he wants, so long as that other person wants to, too.”

Watch the video below and keep up with Wonderlick over here.