Your alarm goes off, and you wake up in your bedroom, the same bedroom you always wake up in. You go to the same bathroom you always use before returning to your room to put on the same clothes you always wear to go to your job, the same job you always attend. You follow the same routine, take your break at the same time every day, and have the same conversations with the same people. Progressively catastrophic news is reported every day about war and corruption, but it sounds the same as the day before. Your government looks the same as every other government. They wear the same clothes and tell the same lies. What exactly is the point in any of it? You were told you could do anything you wanted with your life, yet here you are adhering to pointless rules dictated to you by idiots in suits. And for what?
This world you live in is frustrating and repetitive. It sells you adventure, flavour, and colour, and when you open the package, you see that once again you’ve been mis-sold banality in a pretty box. So, you return to your grey life, hoping to earn enough to buy something truly special that will make the world taste exciting again.
The Overbites offer an alternative to that mundanity. Put on your band T-shirt, pants and socks, and just do whatever the hell you want. Mosh, create, and develop a community of people who care about what you care about. Their new album Hopeless Overthinker packs 15 banging pop-punk songs into little under 40 minutes, and it’s the elixir you’ve been looking for. There’s something about bouncing off your sweaty peers that makes life feel really beautiful. Every bump and shove dislodges a chunk of uncertainty about who you are, and your purpose here on this rock and The Overbites provide a space for you to do that.
Every song is perfectly crafted from rapid pounding drums, melodic basslines, power chords and visceral lyrics to give you the anarchic catharsis you’ve been looking for. At the end of time, this album will be put in the same box as Bad Religion, Rancid, and Green Day’s Dookie and Nimrod albums.
