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03.11.07
Now It's Overhead will support Idlewild for several UK shows this month. Check out the dates.
Hope to see you!
01.15.07
On January 18 Fabchannel will live webcast the Now It's Overhead show from Paradiso in
Amsterdam. The concert starts at 20:00 CET, check your local time.
It will be available on demand for free after the concert as well. Check it out here.
07.19.06
The band is currently on a full US tour. Check out
the dates here. New album, Dark Light Daybreak, to be
released on September 12 by Saddle Creek Records. New
band site coming soon!!! Stay tuned.
05.10.06
The band will be touring with Tilly and the Wall this summer. Check out the dates here.
10.03.05
Now It's Overhead is currently in the studio recording a new album. It's due to be released on Saddle Creek in August of 2006. In the meantime, check out Lagniappe, a compilation that includes "Breathe," by Maria Taylor and Andy LeMaster, as well as newly recorded tracks by Orenda Fink, Bright Eyes, Cursive and the Faint. These songs can also be downloaded from iTunes. You'll be supporting a great cause - all profits are being donated to the Red Cross.
07.16.05
Check out the August 2005 issue of the British music magazine, UNCUT, featuring R.E.M. on the cover. A live version of "Reverse" appears on the attached free disc. There are three different versions of the issue, one per R.E.M. band member. The Now It's Overhead track is on the disc Michael Stipe put together.
07.10.05
Andy is currently on the road with Bright Eyes playing guitar for the European leg of their tour. He's using the long bus rides and days off to sort through loads of demos for the next Now It's Overhead album. Upon return in early August, the band will enter the studio to begin properly recording their third full-length. It may take a month. It may take six months. But it will probably be around the first of the year when the new album is released and the next round of Now It's Overhead touring begins. We'll keep you posted.
05.26.02
Andy remixed a track from R.E.M.'s latest. You can download it and hear more about the project at their website. Click here for more info.
BIO
At the nucleus of Now It's Overhead is the songwriting of multi-instrumentalist and recording engineer Andy LeMaster, who has long lent his talents to Bright Eyes and whose Chase Park Transduction studio has recorded the likes of REM, Drive-By Truckers, The Glands, of Montreal, and a host of Saddle Creek label mates.
Since the first, self-titled Now It's Overhead release in 2001, LeMaster has crafted his compositions with the help of Azure Ray's Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor, as well as drummer Clay Leverett, with whom Andy has played music for nearly two decades. This combination of talents has lent itself fluidly to the range of LeMaster's songwriting, the diversity of which shined throughout 2004''s critically lauded Fall Back Open. 2006 finds Fink, Taylor, and Leverett in the studio with LeMaster yet again, putting the finishing touches on Now It's Overhead�s third full-length, Dark Light Daybreak.
Now It's Overhead has more than once evoked the term "dreamy." Dark Light Daybreak is not exactly an exception � it's awash in the band's signature moody layers and wall of guitar. But if the previous two records were dream-like, Dark Light Daybreak is more akin to waking up.
Providing by one turn a desert-highway soundtrack, by another, a heartrending nostalgia for a moment just past the edge of memory, Dark Light Daybreak is sharp around the edges, with each song's elements being as distinct as the whole. A syncopated beat pops against an insistent bass line. The comforting patter of a keyboard is unsettlingly punctuated by overdriven, discordant voices. And throughout, Andy LeMaster's reedy vocals, as diverse an instrument as any on the album, are as true in a fragile harmony as they are on a soaring, cathartic chorus. Whether delivering an acidic indictment or a hopeful sentiment, voice combines with lyrics to speak the collective experience of individuals.
Now It�s Overhead's latest offering sees LeMaster's seasoned production skills synthesizing songwriting and recording; letting space and clarity serve as a thread of tension that runs through the album, unifying songs that range from stark to symphonic, buoyant to tragic. The range of Leverett's drumming and the variations of Taylor and Fink's vocals shine through, adding to each song the expertise of musicians who stand back, listen, then bring exactly what needs to be there. Dark Light Daybreak runs the songwriting gamut, leaving not a moment to be missed.
LeMaster and friends have toured the United States and Europe alongside such bands as REM, Rilo Kiley, The Faint, Idlewild, The Killers, Tilly and the Wall, Desaparecidos, and Azure Ray. Now It's Overhead will again be touring extensively in support of Dark Light Daybreak. Look for shows starting in June and the album release on September 12, 2006.
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