“From his boyhood San Mateo, California bedroom, Her Space Holiday explores the bewilderment of young adulthood through a dreamy prozac lens.”
With its mood permanently set to melancholy millennial, Home Is Where You Hang Yourself is… quite the album title. Recorded a quarter of a century ago by Her Space Holiday, it is literally suburban bedroom pop, dappling emotional, muttering indie compositions with the era’s characteristic penchant for lightweight electronic suffusion.
It’s indietronica just as we all remember it, if we’re old enough. A couple favorites: “The Doctor and the DJ” spins an unexpected tale of romance around the twine of a waltz, and on the following track “Sleeping Pills” the artist raises a minimally funky, reverb-glazed toast to the substances that try putting us to rest. Just as satisfying are the long stretches of instrumental navel-gazing (as on the first minute-plus of “Sugar Water”), providing some sort of solace to those who truly find warmth in the company of misery.
Originally released in 2000 on NY label Tiger Style Records, the album was recently re-released by Chicago’s Numero Group in an expanded 25th anniversary edition featuring remixes by Bright Eyes, Duster, and more.
