Fall Back Open
- Now It's Overhead
- Band Name: Now It's Overhead
- Record Label: Saddle Creek
- Release Date: Mar 9, 2004
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This is a rare example of music transcending lyrics in conveying the work’s meaning.
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80Dusky, angsty synth-pop. [Apr 2004, p.103]
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80Despite its slowcore pedigree, Fall Back manages to stand solidly on its own haunted ground, forging a yet-to-be-realized level of tender creativity.
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Closely approximates what Tears For Fears' The Hurting would have sounded like if Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith had grown up in Georgia. [Apr 2004, p.84]
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The overall effect is intoxicating -- some sort of triangulated point in the middle of REM, New Order and Statistics.
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80Their country-sagged beat-focused rock remains, which, coupled with some sumptuous keys and Andy LeMaster’s notoriously unnerving range, reveal Now It’s Overhead’s startling magnetism.
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Fall Back Open is a well-constructed modern pop record that displays some neat influences and also contributes a good deal of its own.
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Fall Back Open builds its Brian Eno-esque architecture into a warm, vulnerable document of searching and fear of connection, resulting in a pleasantly engaging and subtly memorable offering.
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75A Death Cab For Cutie album you can listen to while ironing your cape. [Apr 2004, p.94]
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70Fall Back Open is more reminiscent of the arid, slow-burning side of the debut ("With a Subtle Look" comes to mind) than its upbeat fare, a reverb-drenched cruise missile flying in relentless slow-motion, like Calla with a pulse and a cherubic blond singer who could have gone boy-band as easily as indie-land.
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Some of the soundscapes on Fall Back Open sound featureless and flat, but most are amazingly accomplished given Now It's Overhead's youth and modest means. [17 Mar 2004]
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60NIO seem more intent on gazing at shoes than stars. [Apr 2004, p.92]
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Despite some tedious melodramatics, Fall Back Open is a decent sophomore effort.
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Overhead's moaning gets tiresome, but their guitar-driven numbers evince both impressive shoegazing atmospherics and a prclivity for nicely fey songwriting. [27 May 2004, p.82]
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40The ponderous lyrics sound cribbed straight from A Mighty Wind, and LeMaster's nasal whine is hard to take. [Apr 2004, p.134]
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SummerB10absolutely beautiful. i can't think of anything that's not amazing about this album.
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giulia4sorry, i dont like the voice. its sounds nearly as bad as the one of the placebo guy
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JamesH9Not as good as the EP but still a dreamy atmospheric brilliant album.