an overnight low

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Overnight Low Releasing Piccadilly

Portland, Maine's An Overnight Low has a new record coming out in November. Chad Walls, the band's songwriter, envisioned a three album set bound by the topic of travel during a nine hour wait at Heathrow. This one, Piccadilly, is the penultimate release. This disc features the same producer, Jonathan Wyman, as well as a long guest list of Maine musicians. The single, Magellan with a Timetable, bursts in at a healthy clip before it washes into a Byrds-like chorus. It's one of those tracks that feels familiar before you know the words. It reminds me of those old Cracker CDs: you're inspired to mime the words before you…

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Euston - An Overnight Low

Euston is the first in a three-part series of albums from Maine’s An Overnight Low, each release to be named after U.K train stations (Piccadilly and Waverley are forthcoming), and inspired by main songwriter Chad Walls’ experiences living and traveling throughout the United Kingdom while completing his Doctorate at the University of Manchester. You can hear a mélange of rich influences here (perhaps most notably R.E.M in the opener, ‘The Artist in the Wrong World’), but the skillful folk-pop sensibilities of Walls and his talented group of fellow musicians (including Jonathan Wyman, Mac Coldwell, Chris White and Holly Nunan) are…

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