Part Time is the lo-fi synth pop project of Austin-based David Speck, who started out playing loud and wild rock ‘n’ roll but switched gears quickly once people took notice of his Casio-tinged, post-punk yet quirky new music.
Starting with a single for Loglady and a debut album for Mexican Summer in 2011, he soon joined the Burger Records family with his first cassette release in 2012. Speck formed a live band for shows and touring, and began recording even lower-fi synth pop songs as Davida Loca (also represented by Superior).
Part Time’s second album, PDA, was released by Mexican Summer in the summer of 2013, then several cassettes and limited LPs surfaced before the release of his latest project, the double LP Virgo’s Maze on Burger.
Virgo’s Maze takes on a variety of styles, winding between the dark (the Cure-esqe “The Cost of Living”), and the poppy (ultra-earworm “Honey Lips”), to a snotty Brit-punk take on a well-known Beatles song.