OVERHEAD, THE ALBATROSS

Irish quartet pull on the heartstrings with dynamic post-rock.

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PINK FLOYD FANS will prick up their ears at Overhead, The Albatross; their bandname is grabbed from the opening line of Echoes. “Myself and Stevie, the bass player, we would have been massive Pink Floyd fans when we were teenagers,” reflects piano and keyboard player David Prendergast. “So, when we started the band I was listening to Pink Floyd all the time – staying up late, doing the thing where you press play on The Dark Side Of The Moon at the exact same as the The Wizard Of Oz. I was that guy.” The Floyd connection starts to dissipate beyond the name, though, since the Dublin quartet are more post-rock than prog rock, but there’s some shared DNA in the experimentalism and soundscaping. Fresh from the release of their…

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