Tweaker - Happy Child
(from The Attraction to All Things U)
Tweaker - Happy Child (feat. Will Oldham)
I got really into Tweaker (A.K.A. Chris Vrenna) for a while, in that period where I was really obsessed with anything Nine Inch Nails related. I had no idea who Will Oldham was at the time, but it definitely primed the pump for when my indie friends started recommending him to me later.
Oldham reprised his guest performance on Tweaker’s second album, but by then Vrenna was building his brand as a remixer who provided a very specific version of “weird”, and the result was rather more predictable and less interesting.
The gist of The Attraction to all Things Uncertain, is that Vrenna more or less storyboarded the album, and the guest vocalists wrote the lyrcis based around those themes. So the odd emotions and distrubing plot are as much a collaboration as the weird aesthetic.
