[Cover photo credit to Tayler Smith]

Brooklyn-based Art Rock duo Man Lee, made up of Sam Reichman & Tim Lee, have released their debut album Hefty Wimpy today, Produced by Arthur Moon (Lora-Faye Åshuvud). As a final peek at the LP, the duo have shared “Night Driving.”

The track “ruminates on biting your tongue, not listening to yourself, and trying to power through an interaction, and the bitterness this creates—even when it’s all just in your head.”

Accompanying the track is video entirely hand drawn by Reichman herself, who explains:

It’s funny the way we form memories. That’s what I got to play with here, re-creating a sequence of moments from the POV of a kid dozing off in the back seat of the family car: a trip to the bank, through the pneumatic tube to reach the lollipop at the end, then dozing off into a more surreal dream state. 

Hefty Wimpy is a nine song collection “exploring misaligned expectations of the self and others.”

They add:

Much of the album stems from the feeling of being resigned to our fates, though not disappointed. Just acknowledging what it is, where expectations have been met or not—right or wrong—and moving on.

Self described as “an Indie-Rock band for the weary masses”, Man Lee is the namesake of the band drawn from the names Sam Reichman and Tim Lee. They began writing together while living between Richmond, D.C, and Baltimore before finding their collaborators back in New York.