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Tracklisting: Sorry for the Setbacks / Winning Guitars / Flame Red-Lawn / Climb the Days / Restless Song / Grain of Hope / Odds & Ends / Palely / Rubber / Sound of a Child / The Mockery |
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"Sorry for the Setbacks" is Overmood's new release on the Genoa label Suiteside. Winning guitars, dance “bits”, pop refrains, deviant noise and electro graffiti. Modest Mouse, Pixies and Daft Punk. Who says autumn has to be gray? The CD is distributed by Audioglobe and is available in the best music shops.
From Alessandria, Overmood started playing together as high-school teenagers, making themselves loved, or hated, as the electro hip-hop duo Astenia. After that experience, Matteo and Alessandro began absorbing different sounds, from indie to alternative rock, from post-punk to garage (which names? Pixies, Sonic Youth, Husker Du, Modest Mouse, At the Drive In, Red Red Meat, Fugazi, Cursive, Pop Group, Cap ‘n’ Jazz, etc.). So they returned to the idea of forming a band, playfully mixing lo-fi, pop, hip-hop rhythms and various forms of electronic music. Their song "Pluton Planet" was put on the New Wave Compilation released with Rumore number 182 and they were the winners of the 2004 Alessandria Wave contest, getting to participate in the Bilborock European Rock Contest in Bilbao, Spain. In july 2005 a three-track demo was produced at Fiscerprais Studios by their old friend Rico of Uochi Toki, who had already sat at the mixer for Bugo, Ovo, and Blown Paper Bags. The demo ended up in the letterbox, and so after a lot of talking and setbacks, the idea developed of recording the other songs that Overmood had written, with Rico staying behind the mixing-board and with the indispensable support of bass-player Andrea Livraghi and guitarist Riccardo Panelli.
Gli Overmood - quartetto dal passato hip-hop dalla sempre più attiva provincia di Alessandria - convincono con un disco rampante e irrequieto, decisamente adatto a dare una sferzata al grigiore dell'autunno. Registrato da Rico dei Uochi Tochi ai Fiscerprais Studio, "Sorry for the Setbacks" è un'attesa ventata di aria nuova che sta già viaggiando veloce sul web e sull'etere. 10 tracce per 38 minuti, chitarre vincenti e dance bits, ritornelli pop, graffiti electro e arrangiamenti multicolore. E' il sound della nuova Indie Club Culture dei ventenni svezzati a Modest
Mouse e Daft Punk, Mr.Oizo e Digitalism, Cubase e Playstation.
Matteo e Alessandro iniziano a suonare assieme ancora adolescenti, ai tempi del liceo, e si fanno amare/odiare sotto le spoglie degli Astenia, duo electro-hip hop. Terminata quell'esperienza, iniziano ad assimilare ascolti differenti, dall'indie all'alternative rock, dal post punk al garage (qualche nome? Sonic Youth, Husker Du, At the
Drive In, Red Red Meat, Fugazi, Cursive, Pop Group, Cap ‘n’ Jazz, ecc.). Da lì, varcata da poco la soglia dei vent'anni, l''idea di tornare a dar vita a un gruppo, mescolando giocosamente lo-fi, ritmiche hip hop, pop e diverse forme di elettronica. La traccia "Pluton Planet" viene inserita nella Wave Compilation allegata al numero 182 di Rumore, e i due vincono l'edizione 2004 di Alessandria Wave, partecipando così al Bilborock European Rock Contest a Bilbao (Spagna). Nel Luglio 2005 3 brani vengono fissati su demo presso i Fiscerprais Studios da Rico dei Uochi Tochi, amico di vecchia data e già producer per Bugo, Ovo, Blown Paper Bags. Il demo finisce nella nostra buca delle lettere, e da lì, dopo chiaccherate e qualche contrattempo (setbacks!), si concretizza l'idea di registrare, sempre con Rico al mixer, un intero album.
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Overmood, from Alessandria, have done it. They condensed their sonic world into 38 minutes, starting with the off-balance rock of the Pixies and Modest Mouse, and bringing in electro ideas, deviant noise, and alternative diversity. "Sorry for the Setbacks" is all you need to know about this young group, a new pearl in the Italian indie scene and another thoroughbred in Suiteside's stable. (MTV.it, September 2007)
In every song you can find a accent, a sound, a solo, a phrase, a tension which will make you listen to this lively and witty (but not always happy) indie-rock CD again, and again. (Claudia Selmi, Rockit, October, 2007)
It's impossible to wash away. They're like henna tattoos, like disco balls, like toffee sweets. They have a gift and, as much as they would like to deny it in the perennial search for "new" sounds or a musical cataclysm, the mark of their style is simply being so fucking ENJOYABLE. (Mattia Bergamini, MusicbOOm, October 2007)
The songwriting is agile and extremely pop, as shown by songs like the easy-going "Winning Guitars," all power chords and quick hooks, the electro-funk of "Flame-Red Lawn," and also "Grain of Hope," mixing fraying guitars and indolent grooves. (Alessandro Besselva Averame, Fuori dal Mucchio #39, September 2007)
A disc like this is a pretty, pleasant short-circuit, a spatio-temporal paradox of sounds, which succeeds in shuffling the cards in the pop deck over a period of time from the early nineties to today. It's like a sonic testament from someone who, from nineties to the current decade, has been playing with hip-hop, electronica, indie-rock, electro-clash, and a mess of other stuff. (Ian Della Casa, Music Club #176, Septmeber 2007)
In these ten striking tracks an original expression is in bloom, made of an enthralling chant-like movement based on simple penetrating hooks, questing pieces pursuing a melodic game-over, and a driving, steady, and always well-considered use of tempo. (Roberto Paviglianiti, Kronic.it, October 2007)
The strong point is the mood, the atmosphere which envelopes you, created by the chopped-up rhythms and choruses that convulse your hearing. It's reminiscent of a certain era of alternative rock, or as it's coming to be called, indie alternative rock, now enriched by the individuality of Overmood, who have not escaped the notice of those steeped in the genre. (Giulia Palummieri, Ondalternativa.it, October 2007)
Accidenti che meraviglia! 7. Rumore
Un esordio sul quale puntare. Il Mucchio (intervista a Ottobre)
Voci ruggenti appena post-adolescenziali, tanto indie nel sangue e elettronica di gusto..7 Rockerilla
Un sound piacevole. Buscadero
Un disco magnifico. Music Club
Riescono ad appiccicartisi addosso e lavarli via è impossibile. Fottutamente PIACEVOLI. MusicbOOm
Punto di forza è il mood, l'atmosfera in cui si viene avvolti è quella disegnata dai ritmi serrati.
Un'ottima partenza, il primo dei tanti gradini che gli Overmood si dimostrano all'altezza di salire Ondalternativa
Un suono freschissimo, innovativo e originale. Kronic
Ritornelli irresistibilmente catchy, pinzati da chitarrine ultimo grido, beats dance, devolumizzati e scratch, so yeah. Rockit
Le idee sono tante e buone. Rockol