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Overpass Boy - Black LP
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08/02/2024
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Catalog Number: KCR12014LP Color: Black Format: LP UPC: 648564355374 For Fans Of... Iron and Wine, Michael Nau, Homeshake, Holy Hive, Leonard Cohen, Cotton Jones, Cut Worms. Danny Garcia is Reverend Baron, Danny was a pro skater for Habitat for many years // Bandmember in Drugdealer // Overpass Boy has streamed over 4.4 million times // Has 135.4k monthly listeners and 11.9k monthly followers on Spotify // Limited Coke Bottle Clear Vinyl is for Indies Only. Written with no big plan in mind, Reverend Baron's "Overpass Boy" becomes a Los Angeles meditation, an eight song prayer of poetic topography. The album gives the city its own sound, and its own songs to hum. Recorded in several different locations of LA, and loosely sketching the story of a young wanderer, the album is an easy current of observations and longings. Slices of soul and doo-wop emerge in stacked harmonies, while the percussion and grooves are the blooms that could only come from East LA. Garcia's investment to vocal tenderness and instrumental high style strikes our universal center. His soft serenade reconnects us to something misplaced. Playing almost every instrument on the album, Garcia's spirit is tailored into the sound, designing an amalgam of tones and frequencies as idiosyncratic as the singer himself. Traversing the alleys, passing the sous-chef's cigarette smoke, under the shaking bridges, behind a velvet curtain in a good suit, with a slide guitar in the rain, the titles quilt together for us: Every promise out here walks and waits in the little hours. Jackie and Jimmy drive away and we're left in that little valley, suspended