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Now It's Overhead
Now It's Overhead
Now It's Overhead
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
 
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With its self-titled debut album, Now It's Overhead put to shame latter-day indie bands from a cross-section of genres--from emo to new wave and industrial--while still sounding remarkably original, coherent, and extremely...  more »

     
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All Artists: Now It's Overhead
Title: Now It's Overhead
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Total Copies: 0
Label: Saddle Creek
Release Date: 10/2/2001
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
Style: Indie & Lo-Fi
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1

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With its self-titled debut album, Now It's Overhead put to shame latter-day indie bands from a cross-section of genres--from emo to new wave and industrial--while still sounding remarkably original, coherent, and extremely listenable. Steeped in the relative eclecticism of '80s and '90s "alternative" music, the band uses its considerable skill to turn numerous great moments from that period into four-minute slabs of brilliant pop. Songs like "6th Grade Roller" suggests there's a Nitzer Ebb record somewhere in singer-songwriter Andy LeMaster's closet, while "Blackout Curtain," does Thompson Twins almost as well as they did themselves. Though a fuzzy curtain of distortion is a constant backdrop to NIO's sound, in front of it the group creates as affecting a song with mellow guitar and vocal harmonies as it does with dramatic electronic displays through "Goodbye Highway." The concluding "A Skeleton on Display," meanwhile, with an added string or woodwind part, could easily have come from the Delgados' gorgeous The Great Eastern. --Sarah A. Sternau

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One of the most impressive first releases ever
dara chalice | NC | 02/22/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)

"[...] here it is:



1. Blackout Curtain

2. Who's Jon

3. Hi

4. Hold Your Spin

5. 6th Grade Roller

6. Wonderful Scar

7. With A Subtle Look

8. Goodbye Highway

9. A Skeleton On Display



This is, without doubt, an amazing first release. I have yet to find another band that sounds the same as NIO. Stand out tracks are "Who's Jon", "Hi" and "With a Subtle Look", but there are no bad tracks on this album. I don't know how to describe how beautiful this CD is. Download some of the free songs at nowitsoverhead.com or saddle-creek.com and decide for yourself.



I saw them at a concert last year promoting Wait In Line; they are just as amazing live and stole the show from the headlining band. If you get the chance to see them live, don't miss it!

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