Hot Dad’s Serious Album "Comedy" Is Coming to Vinyl
Prolific "emotional comedy" musician & YouTuber partners with Future Imperfect for his first LP
You may have seen his YouTube videos for such original songs as Big Money Salvia, It’s Time to Clean, I Love to Piss, and I Really, Really, Really Like This Image.
As silly and fun as these songs and their videos are, Hot Dad also infuses his washed-out retrowave dreampop dad rock with deep and complicated feelings. He calls it emotional comedy music. It’s funny, but you might cry.
Take for instance his song If U Reply, in which a lonely Facebook user posts to the online void in the hopes his crush will react (“If you hit Like, I’ll smile / If you hit Sad, I’ll cry / But if you reply, I’ll come and stay with you there tonight / And hold you tight”). The pathos exists between the sincere, warm, longing timbre of the song and the knowing pity of the listener: you just know, as you do for the protagonist of Genesis’s Misunderstanding (1980), there has been no misunderstanding — she’s just not that into you, bro.
And there’s Banana Road, a straight-faced stylistic sendup of Springsteenian Americana-nostalgia rock with seriously silly lyrics. Its sonic craft is such an authentic love letter to the genre that you can’t help but feel tingles at the story of a young man’s rocket ride and crash through music stardom with his pal Clovis playing drums on tin cans on old Banana Road.
Or take his most recent video, I Will Never Rock. At face value, it’s a protest song against the mere existence of songs (that’s funny); in its sonic and textual undercurrents, it’s the last whelp of a creative soul whose dreams have been all but pulverized by the 9-5 grind. This character vows never to rock, roll, sing, or play. But he does rock — he’s doing it now — and we don’t want him to stop, lest we stop too.
So it should come as no surprise that Hot Dad created a layered full-length album with Comedy. Its title gives away the gag: this is not a laugh-out-loud “comedy” album; this is a sincere work that explores the inner world of a hyperactively creative individual always feeling the pressure to be funny, or to be present, or to be organized, or to otherwise navigate a world that seems, at times, designed to make you fail. But Hot Dad’s particular sense of humor and ever-sharpening sonic sensibilities make this anything but a downer.
Completed in 2024, Comedy has never seen a full release, though it has been available to Hot Dad’s patrons on Patreon. Now, Hot Dad has partnered with Future Imperfect to bring this record into the world as a physical, limited-run LP coinciding with its official digital release.
I’ve loved Hot Dad’s music for a long time, and Comedy is an artistic achievement1. I’m thrilled to bring this album to you the way it was meant to be heard: on an anachronistic physical medium that isn’t really a joke.
We’re just getting started on this project. Follow for updates.
Disclosure: Future Imperfect is the label releasing this record. I have a financial interest in its success. So, when I tell you the album is great, believe me, but also know I want you to buy it.



This ts shit is so crazy in an awesome way.