Year Over Year – ‘… I’ve Accepted The Thing’s I Can’t Change’ EP
Year Over Year – Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Canada produces a great deal of amazing music, both on a larger scale and in more underground output. Some of my favourite bands hail from that large expanse of land, as do many of Musically Fresh’s features.
So, because we’re so nice, here’s all the time ‘Canada’ has been tagged on our website. Enjoy – Click Here.
Anyway, recently we received a message from solo artist, Year Over Year, from Calgary in Alberta. Having read our work on Pop-Punks, Calling All Captains, he requested a review of his 2015 EP, … I’ve Accepted The Things I Can’t Change.
‘Arrrhhhhhhhhh – here it goes.’
Chilled, heartfelt, honesty, feels? These are all words you could use to describe the dulcet tones of Year Over Year. You could call it winey and ‘Emo‘, maybe it is a little bit, but that really doesn’t matter.
Is it the same as that idiot that woos high-school girls under the tree, with his dramatic odes to crap that didn’t actually happen, laced with fabricated conviction, sat cross legged in jeans he probably tore deliberately, with his Nirvana shirt and tattered guitar just to seem edgy? The answer is, no it isn’t, it’s just honesty put into music and you have respect that.
Track two follows track one, (what?!?). Title-wise, it’s another “Street-name-no-one-knows” cliche, which is annoying but you get past it. It’s a sombre number, very touching, it’s probably too much for some, but that’s completely subjective to the listener. All I will say is that, sometimes trying to forget is hard and often impossible.
‘My hands are shaking from trying to forget, I sleep alone in a cold and vacant bed, my head is an empty balloon attached to my neck, my stomachs filled with butterflies from trying to forget, they fall out of my head, taking teeth and saliva out with them.’
Track three follows on in the same way, chilled and reminiscent. It’s a bitter tale and a painful one at that. But it’s one of those songs that although sad and adept at taking you back to a painful time, has that little bit of determination and pride that shows you that you got past it all. I know I did.
You probably saw this coming, but ‘Going Away Party’ is just as dark. It’s got a bit more bite to it though and that’s welcome. However, said bite arguably isn’t manifested enough as it could be. Maybe next time.
‘Vancouver’ (I know where THAT one is is) is the saddest song on the EP and it’s also the longest, clocking in at 5:26. I initially thought it was too long, but after a few listens and reads through the lyrics it began to hold it’s own.
The spoken-word and choir-like vocals are a nice touch as well, with the soft piano guiding you to the end. That said, the rant of spoken word is a bit much, but you can’t argue with it’s conviction.
Anyway, for a full debut EP, Year Over Year has done well. It’s all very intense, but if you’re into chilled, heartfelt Acoustic music, you’ll love it or at the very least appreciate it, in the feels.
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