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.
Includes unlimited streaming of Overo/Asthenia split
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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
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
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