Co-released with Forge (JPN), Count Your Lucky Stars (USA), Middle-man (USA), Pundonor (ESP), strictly no capital letters (UK), Lilac Sky (NOR), Polar Summer (RUS), Scully Records (USA)
Mastered by Joe Caithness
Track List:
Side A
Haunted by Heat - Overo
Near the End - Overo
Side B
人間たち (Humans) - Asthenia
幽霊たち (Ghosts) - Asthenia
Emotive hardcore bands Overo (USA) and Asthenia (JPN) pair up to deliver four visceral, cathartic songs. Originally planned in conjunction with an Overo/Asthenia Japan tour set for November 2020, the split 7” showcases both bands’ ability to balance vulnerability and aggression, light and dark, whispers and gut-wrenching screams. As the pandemic raged across the world, eight record labels across six countries stepped up to support the release despite the cancellation of bands’ tour in support of it. The end result is a response to COVID-19 that’s sonic and substantial rather than literal.
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lyrics
I couldn’t remember if
it was snowfall or ashes
that fell in the darkness
because that winter so many fires
gorged on my old town--
each one, gathering a crowd.
I’d never before been afraid of flames
or had my lungs choked by smoke
or heard third degree screams.
All I can see are the flames.
Where am I from?
I’m afraid. I’m afraid.
I can’t breathe, but I scream, and I scream.
I didn’t stay long, but now
I’m still haunted by heat.
‘Cause I can’t help but think
what has this done to me?
The embers from the trees
fall around my feet.
And when they hear me scream
they fall to their knees.
‘Cause I can’t help but think
what has this done to me?
credits
from Overo/Asthenia split,
released September 21, 2020
Recorded by Jay Littleton in Houston, TX in February 2020
Mastered by Joe Caithness
supported by 9 fans who also own “Haunted by Heat”
Who says the french can't do some proper emo? Also awesome album opening with the Stand by Me references. The tracks are absolutely banging and the whole album is worth listening to. dominikgray
supported by 8 fans who also own “Haunted by Heat”
i'm no good so i'll let everyone else do the talking abt how great this album is bc i have more important things to talk abt like that it was recorded in my hometown!! i was walkin around a stupid little ten-year-old and they were in the stu makin this album less than a mile from my house!! what!!!!! Elizabeth
Toronto band Respire deliver a post-hardcore tour de force on the largest scale possible, orchestrally rich and incessantly uncompromising. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 6, 2021
supported by 7 fans who also own “Haunted by Heat”
Mournful chord progressions that follow slow, languorous vocal melodies; thrumming bass; dynamic, textured drums. The title track, in particular, is one of the band's best in a decade + of great songs — somehow weightless and weighty. https://www.vikingschoice.org/archive/epic-metal-japanese-noise-digital-cumbia/ Lars Gotrich