Overset and The ‘Waiting For The Rain To Stop’ EP.
Overset – Liverpool, England, United Kingdom.
Liverpool, a city heaped in musical history and a city still quite nearly full to the brim with underground talent. A city that also more specifically has it’s penchant for the many saplings grown from the Punk-Rock tree all those years ago. Within moments into delving into Liverpool’s sonic scrublands and expansive noise-forests, Punk-Rock music in forms both pure and diverse are common place and that is exactly where the Pop-Punk five-piece Overset come in after an already amazing 2018.
Waiting For The Rain To Stop is the debut EP from Overset and offers up a Pop-Punk sound picking and choosing it’s additional toppings without so much of a piece of Pineapple in sight. ‘Pretend’ opens heavy, down-tuned and distorted before a late 90’s-early 2000’s lead sets the band’s Pop-Punk melodies fully. ‘Pretend’ balances tone and melody with a clear penchant for flurries of heaviness and shows the band to be very much subject of their time.
‘Better Day’ bridges classic Pop-Punk with the early 2000’s Pop-Rock-isms of ‘Pretend’ with just enough Easycore inclinations to stand it one of the best and most lyrically memorable on the release.
However with such a bold statement made, ‘Nightmares’ pushes the band’s boundaries further with Skate Punk-esque shredding and a more than welcome tempo injection worthy of the golden age of the Pop-Punk genre. The band balance this with cliche but not OTT lyrics of negative behavioural revelations and apologies late with a chorus falling back on the Pop-hook, line and sinker that made them so appealing in the first place.
‘What I Needed’ sees Overset fall back on a mid-tempo and their most rounded sound yet in track with yet another memorable chorus. ‘The Future Is Now Old Man’ very much finds itself relying on the early 2000’s Easycore with the cutting contrast between sharp-strings, heavy-Pop vocal melodies and the heaviness of the track notably owed to the production of the EP.
It is here where admittedly it does leave the band’s melodies and musicianship suffering, albeit only slightly over the obvious limit to which they are purposely trying to sound gritty and raw, which again, they do in fact do quite well. It is with tracks such as this it is entirely down to the preference of the listener. The future is now, decide what you think.
‘Exit Road’ is unambiguously the best of Overset. With it’s darker, Emo-led Pop-Punk sound taking control after a deceptive intro. Overset have quite clearly an cleanly added their emotion into the EP fully thus far but it is in the dulcet-to-moody-aggressive tones of ‘Exit Road’ that really makes Waiting For The Rain To Stop what it is.
‘Exit Road’ is not the track you expected to hear just before the last drops of mood-killing precipitation have hit the ground but it definitely ends a debut EP well-worth your time.
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