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Friday, January 31, 2014

[Weekend Video] Island by Wyatt Overman (Live Basement)

This album was recorded over the span of two winters. In basements & bedrooms.
Go fifty miles from the nearest city and step outdoors. Whether the terrain is mountainous, a desert wasteland, covered in trees, or sprawling with flat country, the effect remains the same. A breath of fresh air, a step away from civilization and all of a sudden we're confronted with our clearest thoughts and greatest demons. With certain songs and certain albums, I can recreate this feeling just by pressing play. Two Winters, by Wyatt Overman is one of those albums.

As much as I've tried to find the right words to pair with Two Winters, words that could convey even the slightest brilliance the album brings to listeners, I've given up beyond what I've written above.

In a dark basement, fitting to the album's tagline, Overman performs Island with a raw passion and beauty that I didn't think could be more memorizing than the original song. With cuts to picturesque scenes of nature, juxtaposed with the dimly lit basement cave, the video presents this trapped-in-the-open feeling that pairs perfectly with Island's lyrics.

Stream Two Winters on Overman's bandcamp page.

 

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