Overpain – "Lifeweight"
Released 18. 12. 2015.
Label: DIY?
Genre: Hardcore / Punk
Review: Tihomir Škara
Review: Tihomir Škara
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Iako imamo običaj da recenziramo domaća izdanja, javili su nam se Grci iz hardcore benda Overpain, i predložili da preslušamo njihov album. Oni su mediteranski razbijači stacionirani u Solunu. Kratak i iskren album, još jedan u nizu dobrih i pravih HC uradaka.
Kroz ceo album provejava bes i neslaganje sa ukalupljenom okolinom. Glavni momenat uspostavljen je nad tekstovima, i nad pričom koja se priča slušaocima. Loša vlast, loši ljudi, loši odnosi, sve to tera jednog prosečnog i razumnog čoveka da izgubi poverenje i krene svojim sopstvenim putem u borbu protiv vetrenjača. Sve bi bilo lako da se ne javljaju levati koji podrivaju ono što je HC zapravo, pa se tako u okviru pomenute borbe javlja još jedna, dodatna borba dokazivanja da HC nije samo muzika i čvrst zvuk, već način mišljenja i življenja.
Rifovi su solidni, ali malo bačeni u zapeća, pa pun potencijal ostaje skriven. Problem je opet u onom sricanju teksta, pa se na dosta mesta upravo zbog loše ispevanog teksta prekida nit slušanja i kvari utisak. Moglo se malo više račina povesti oko aranžmana teksta za muzikom, kako bi se početnička greška izbegla. Tu su prateći vokali, koji povremeno vode reč, i oni su sasvim dobro uklopljeni, ali nakon njih glavni vokal često otegne tekst, pa to zvuči nabacano i sirovo.
Što se produkcije tiče, nema se šta puno reći, ovo je HC, pa ne postoji potreba za prefinjenom produkcijom i miksom. Sve se čuje kako i treba da se čuje, akcenat je na poruci koja je u potpunosti prenesena, suština ovih bendova su žive svirke na kojima puca energija, tako da su snimci sa tehničke strane potpuno odlični.
Svakako je ovo neobičan album, jer uglavnom nismo navikli na mnogo HC-a sa ovih područja, a ovi momci znaju šta sviraju i šta rade. Ako ste u ovoj priči, ovaj će vas album sigurno oduševiti.
* Recenzija objavljena u 4. broju Principa>>>
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Although I have a habit to listen and review just local releases, I’ve been contacted by Greek HC band Overpain, asked me to listen their album. They’re Mediterranean smashers stationed in Thessaloniki. It is short, but true album, another in the row of genuine HC things.
Entire album is overloaded with anger and disagreement with patterned, molded environment. Main moment is constructed on lyrics and testimonies that are told to listeners. Gruesome authorities, awful people, bad relations, all these things force one youngster and average sane person to lose confidence in others and take its own path to fight with windmills. Everything would be easier if there are no fools that undermine and misunderstood HC, so there is another fight inside existing one, additional fight of proving that HC isn’t just about music and hard sounds, but about way of living and thinking.
Riffs are solid, but thrown in the background, so the full potential remains hidden. Main problem is in spelling of lyrics, and because of that, there’s interruption in flow of the singing. It could be more better if they paid just a little bit more attention to arrangement of lyrics with music. There are backing vocals, which sometimes lead the flow, and they are arranged very well, but after them, main vocal often lenghten the lyrics, and that sounds piled and too raw.
There’s nothing much to say about production, it’s HC, so there’s no need for state-of-the-art production and mixing. Everything sounds how it’s supposed to sound, accent is on the message which is fully transposed. Very essence of this bands are live gigs with blasts of energy, so from the technical side, recordings are great.
In the manner of speaking, this is unusual album, because we aren’t used to listen a lot of HC from these areas, but guys from Overpain know exactly what are they playing and living. If you are into HC, this album will surely delight you.
Review: Tihomir Škara
Translated and edited by: Desya Lovorov
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