Minneapolis’ Air Conditioning School is the latest project
from So TM records, the home of Total Babe and
UltraChorus. Air Conditioning School is a solo project of Chris
Heidman (Sukpatch), whose releases on Sub Pop, Grand Royal
and Moshi Moshi garnered much critical praise. He now brings
you his full length debut titled General Mountain Time.
Air Conditioning School gives us the first view of Heidman’s
song writing without the compromise of collaboration. The
result is full of serenely relaxed melodies, acoustic guitars and
keyboards, mixed with hints of Heidman’s past as an
indie-electro pioneer, showing his influences from everything
to early Sebadoh to stereolab to VU. The song-writing is
simple, sincere storytelling that falls somewhere between Yo
La Tengo, Beck’s “Sea Change”, Silver Jews, and old Palace
Brothers. General Mountain Time is a production masterpiece,
one not seen in Heidmans previous repitoire.