The last time Spencer Krug and co. stopped by Daytrotter's Illinois studio, they laid down "Winged/Wicked Things." The 2006 performance was released a good year and a half before the track would become a centerpiece for the ragged and brilliant LP, Random Spirit Lover. So now that another session has been canned and posted, you'll forgive me for focusing my laser beam specifically on this batch's newbie. "idiot Heart" has been pounding in the band's set list for the better part of a year, but not yet committed to tape. "If I was king of the world, songs would be available for everyone to hear as soon as they were finished, instead of going through the long delay of waiting for release dates," says Krug in his posted comments.

The track continues Krug's predilection for the grand mythological imagery using the winged asshole Icarus in his assigned metaphorical role, warning against youthful indiscretion. "You can't can't settle down until the Icarus in your blood has drowned," warns Spence's sage and warbled lyric. Thematically, it's of a piece with Random Spirit Lover's mouthful, "Up on Your Leopard, Upon the End of Your Feral Days," both bemoaning the perils and necessities of growing the fuck up. The music itself is less layered and complex though, coming close to being the straight ahead rocker that the newest disc may have lacked. The metaphors come fast and thick, but it's pretty easy to grasp. Krug has a way with investing vague images with real emotional weight. We're lucky that his continued, dogged prolificacy in writing them comes in an era so dependent on and conducive to constant output.