Best known for his work as a comedian, writer, and actor, Tim Heidecker is also an accomplished musician and songwriter whose tunes don't necessarily have to rely upon humor to succeed. While he had played in bands since the '90s, Heidecker's music first began winning a large audience when some of his tunes appeared on Awesome Show, Great Job, the TV series he created with creative partner Eric Wareheim, and his work appeared on two albums of music from the show. Heidecker's love of '70s soft rock found an outlet on a pair of albums he made with Awesome Show composer Davin Wood, 2011's Starting from Nowhere and 2013's Some Things Never Stay the Same. Barbed political satire informed 2017's Too Dumb for Suicide: Tim Heidecker's Trump Songs, while his fascination with vintage pop grew on 2019's What the Brokenhearted Do and 2022's High School.