Concert Preview: Overcoats Are Ready To Confront What It Means To Be Young
Overcoats’ Young is an easy record. Simply press play and you walk with two voices through their day to day, Hana and JJ. The young duo radiate the wonder and indifference that courses within youthful minds. One day, we are enraptured by life, and, the next day, we could toss it in the trash with empty beer cans and crunched-up candy wrappers.
Overcoats – I Don’t Believe In Us (Official Video)
The greatness about being young is that you feel taken by life, for better or worse. To be young is to live closer to your heart, which is not a bad thing and explains the vibrant calm of songs such as “Leave The Light On”, “23”, and “Siren”. Often, being twenty-something is compared to living on an emotional roller-coaster, which is not wrong. When we are spiritually high, we feel at our highest, and when we are low the earth’s core feels too shallow in comparison. Thus, the excitement for Overcoat’s as a sound/ artistic duo is that they capture that. Each song feels like it was plucked from an ice cooler of music; made chilled and easily placeable to any drink. You the sweet spiritual that is “Mother”; where each hum cleanses your soul and sonic palette. Then, you have tracks like “Nighttime Hunger” which feels like a march against life’s darkness, while “The Fog” pulses it base like a night-table to hold one inner truth; “Freedom is when I am without you”. Overcoats knows how to create verses that hold one’s inner most honesties, and places them over rhythms that should, technically, be called ambiances with how they influence your mood.
Overcoats – Leave The Light On
Vocally, Hana and JJ stream into each song like they were two syrups pouring into cake batter. Together they are so enriching that you understand why certain people are destined to sing together; sometimes, two is truly better than one like, in tracks “ Walk On” and “Siren”.Their harmonies amp up “millennialism” or rather the whims, woes, and wonder of being twenty-nothing in 2017. Sonically, their tracks feel soft; with even their baselines hitting as hard as a thrusted pillow. Yet, I welcome the sonic serenity, which makes me BEYOND excited for their January 23 show at Brooklyn Steel. Opening up for Tennis, whom are amazing live, this duo is going to fill that warehouse with a healing haze, known as music. For More Information On Overcoats Click Here.
