Storm Boy – Overlay! (self-published)

Storm Boy – Overlay! (self-published)

October 24, 2024

Stormboy According to their own statements, they have always found it difficult to find a short saying or a generic catchphrase that succinctly summarizes their work. But in my opinion that’s a good thing, a unique selling point, even more reason to support their cause. Actually, I don’t think so… I know. Because it’s obvious that if one could find a suitable name, a suitable soundbite or a suitable slogan for a band or an artist, it would follow that something similar must already exist in the musical canon. The more Storm Boy fights to define what they do, the more reason there is to love them.

The title of her latest EP, Overlay! seems to be the band that embraces this state of sonic flow and fluidity, a term that refers to the arrangement of multiple things on top of each other, the layering of different properties, the composition of something from many different components, and the perception it’s about the context: what one person sees, or in this case hears, is not necessarily the same for everyone. If such a term can be applied to music, then few embody a process as diverse as Storm Boy.

With “Instrument,” they express their interest in blending melody with muscular, raw college rock grooves and grunge moves, seeking beauty in the most abrasive and abrasive sounds, and making opposites attractive by smashing them together with great force . And as chaotic as that sounds, it works. Boy, does that even matter.

“Smiling Betty” is a screaming volley of discordant guitar strikes punctuated by beguiling bursts of sound. “GEISTE!” is a sing-along, mosh-along and slam-along piece of mutant punk with your fist in the air and your foot on the monitor. “Keep It Simple” is based on a motorik groove on which the band mixes the defining gothic sound of, for example, “Sisters of Mercy” with the energy of “Stooges” proto-punk and sonic panic attacks.

Four tracks later, I still can’t tell you anything about the band’s genre, sound or style, or where you might put this on record store shelves (we still have those, right?), but I can say If you want something different, brilliantly different, made up of vaguely familiar sounds, get this now.

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