The Overhead Bins the art rock fuse of "I Could Fight" from the "Telethon" Album

 

"A desire to be conceptually artful in 360 degrees..."

Step into "I Could Fight" by New York's artfully experimental The Overhead Bins with pursed lipstick lips and you might feel transported. For me, my mind flashed and fluttered back to 1978's English rock duo Godley & Creme's "An Englishman In New York", but equally I thought of Queen, T-Rex and Sparks. A pastiche of highly stylized artists who were not afraid to pull from baroque, burlesque, cabaret, kitsch, art pop and punk all at once. A desire to be conceptually artful in 360 degrees not only sonically so. 

Besides the fact that a shot of adrenaline shot up my spine, The Overhead Bins were right in front of my eyes (ears really) revisiting certain personal touchstones but also feeling new, fresh. I get a sense that the boys here invest heavily in the rich persona of experimental music as homages and as new brave territory. 

"I Could Fight" is from The Overhead Bins' 2023 album "Telethon" and, of course, I had to poke, peruse, sample bit and pieces of the album. I quickly realized that the band freely experiments in all different tones, sounds, styles. Songs like "How to Ruin Everything for Everyone" and / or "Once I was Were You Are Today" or / and "Become" may (or not) dip into the progressive ID rock of artists like Radiohead or Motorpsycho while other tracks like "Cinderblocks" and / or "Microphone" and / or "Underneath" may (or may not) dip into the emo askew twists of artists like The Wooden Birds or Deerhoof or an amalgam of similar artists. AND finally, songs like "Fun" and "Silver Sunshine" pitches into the lovelorn syrup of artists like Moonspeak and Abandoned Pools. 

Trying to describe a new artist in terms of other artists (iconic or not) is like traipsing through a forest full of bear traps. You have a good chance of leaving bruised and bloody. LET me say that The Overhead Bins are there own thing, lovely songwriting, daring and beautifully drawn. I am stoked to have a new band to revel in. 

-Robb Donker Curtius 

THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM 

https://open.spotify.com/artist/4b0bf6d0yFjakaEBAihGgN

https://www.instagram.com/overheadbins/

New York band that twist art pop, alt rock, art rock, new wave, proto punk into something else

The Overhead Bins, New York, alt rock, indie rock, post punk, proto punk, experimental rock, avant pop, progressive rock, new album "Telethon", "I Could Fight",