Album Review: Corey Harper Has An “Overcast” of Love

I said with Bruno Major, whom also is releasing a record this week, women love a man that sings to love as if he experiences how we, ladies, fall in and out of it. We are a sucker for a guy who cares about his relationship and partner as much as women do/ are told to, and when that guy has a voice that smokes notes, as if his vocal chords double for a fireplace, we are there! Corey Harper’s Overcast puts wood to the fire, and burns up the desire people have to be loved.
Corey Harper – Entertainment (Visualizer)

If someone told me Harper made this album after climbing Mt.Everest and yelling to the top of his lungs, “LOVE ME, PLEASE!” I’d believe it. Sometimes, finding love can feel exactly like that; a mountain hike that makes you either want to throw yourself off the peak or feel like any higher and Love will help you reach the sky. In Overcast, Corey runs through all the emotions of seeking love; the “Crave,” the “Entertainment,” and the back and forth that makes us believe Love is as fun/ competitive as an arcade game (“Pinball”). The fact that Corey’s voice can embody the pure melodrama of it all is what makes the album something to consume. 
Corey Harper – Fade to Black (Visualizer)

If Justin Vernon decided to become a pop star with a folkish swag, then you would get Corey Harper. Both have that higher-pitch, steadying voice, and love to use a moody synth-wave to cast a little darkness over their soundscapes. While Vernon takes his songs down a more spiritual, even avant-garde road of folkism, Harper revels in a pop style; as if his rhythms were born in a forest of trees leaved by past relationships and barked by an unwavering, bubblegum hope. Why not! We all have to get lucky in love, eventually? Right? Well, I think so, and Overcast is a solid EP to mark Corey Harper as a singer to one’s journey for luck in love. Corey Harper’s Overcast comes out June 5.