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overo – Waiting for the End to Begin
Overo is an emo / post-hardcore quartet from Houston, Texas, formed in 2019. Each member had previously played in bands such as football, etc., It Only Ends Once, Perfect Future, Wild Moccasins, and Teenage Kicks. Throughout their existence together, they dropped a debut cassingle, a self-titled album, a split with Asthenia and another split with […]
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Artist: overo
Title: Waiting for the End to Begin
Release: LP / Digital
Year: 2022
Label: Middle-man Records, strictly no capital letters, Pundonor Records, zilpzalp records
Overo is an emo / post-hardcore quartet from Houston, Texas, formed in 2019. Each member had previously played in bands such as football, etc., It Only Ends Once, Perfect Future, Wild Moccasins, and Teenage Kicks. Throughout their existence together, they dropped a debut cassingle, a self-titled album, a split with Asthenia and another split with Punch On!, Zochor and Coma Regalia. Their latest effort to date is 2022’s Waiting for the End to Begin.
Overo plays a beautiful blend of compositions in the vein of ’90s emocore and Midwest Emo with heartfelt and melancholic melodies, intertwined with Brendan’s shouting and Lindsay’s clean vocals. Especially with the latter, who knows how to accompany vocal melodies with melancholy so well. Parts of the album remind me so much of I Would Set Myself On Fire…, Gwenn, 125 Rue Montmartre, Rainer Maria, Eldritsch Annisette and a bit of Circle Takes The Square (minus the experimental and mathcore bits).
What nearly brought me to tears was the spoken word interlude “Lung Compliance”, a track in which poems by Robert Tejada are narrated over the melancholic guitars. The way they are narrated along with the music is so powerful that it hurts. “Body” almost falls into Now-Now territory while maintaining their own thing. But the most powerful thing is the six minutes long closer “Without You”. The highlight of this song is the start-stop moment where Lindsay confesses her spoken words about the last time they were together and wanting to end it. And then imagine the finale like a lone person trapped in a sinking boat, desperately trying not to drown in the tidal waves. That’s a powerful feeling.
Unless you’re new to their music, you wouldn’t expect much of anything new in their sound, other than a complete dedication to the rawness of the ’90s emocore heyday. But even so, you might like it and later you will love it. overo doesn’t go overboard and the flow of the album is generally just right.
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