Notebook Series Review: To the Band That Was Wonderful - Overhang's Another Hole for You to Crawl Into

The Music Spectrum Notebook Series digs into my handwritten notes and reviews on older releases still getting my attention.

After this summer’s departure of lead guitarist Joel Zuidhof, Overhang’s Jeff Stienstra (drums), Nate Bierdeman (bass), and Grant Elgersma (vocals and guitars) have said they are working together on a new project as yet unnamed. However, here’s a look back at a tremendous album.

On the heels of going to the Collections of Colonies of Bees show back in April, I went back to listen to Overhang’s Another Hole for You to Crawl Into. The connection being in how Overhang takes CoCoBees' experimental rock soundscape approach and develops full-on songs. It’s got a noise blues posture with a hard crunch jammed with a Chicago indie band sound. “Buried in the Earth” takes something from those gray days at Slane Castle where U2 made An Unforgettable Fire while crunching it up against a garage rock drum machine. “Scream and Shout”—in that hard rock blues—leaves nothing behind.

Often the vocals have a eerie, “trapped in your head” that then ply spiritual depths. It’s the kind of music that I could turn into a dark, club scene worship service filled with video montages, liturgical phrases inserted at just the right junctures of song, crowd response, and the band launching into another crashing song.

The Band Formerly Known as Overhang
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