Thermostat: When Brains and Machines Misfire

A parable of mood swings, grief, and brokenness.

Thermostat lives on an album where even the tray art feels like a cryptic parable.

It doesn’t get much more deep cut than track sixteen out of twenty. That’s where you’ll find Thermostat, tucked away on They Might Be Giants’ John Henry.

I know I keep mentioning it every week, but I can’t separate this record from the fact that I lost my uncle to suicide a…