Hello Sunbeam is the new ep by Portland shoegazers Wooden Overcoat who are the solo project of Brant Hajek who recorded everything himself using vintage equipment at his house in Portland.
The ep opens with Home with reverb heavy guitar countered by an acoustic strum and dreamy vocals, evoking a blissful home through a psychedelic haze, the shimmering sounds and bleak feelings that life has taken a wrong turn shine through.
Finally Arrived at the realisation that they really would welcome Luna comparisons, this slow thoughtful song works at an opiated pace, layered textural guitars and keyboards drawing us through the prism of your loneliness.
Heaven Right Now is a eulogy for his ailing mum and her battle against cancer, he wants to know who has the answers, while the ululating guitars offer a cushioned bed for his feelings, the pain he feels that nothing will ever be right again, no matter how the beat emphasises everything, he is still feeling bereft.
The ep closes with Knew You Would sound a bit like Viva Saturn, gentle psychedelic evocations of the end of an affair, how to get back from the bottom to the top once more, in the caustic edged guitars signalling all the hurt you caused him, that can only be released through sad songs like this.
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