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Now It's Overhead performs "Wait in a Line"

Now It’s Overhead is the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist and noted recording engineer Andy Lemaster. Originally from Athens, Georgia and now signed to the Saddle Creek label, this group is a culimination of LeMaster’s collaborations with Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor (both from the late, lamented Azure Ray). Male and female harmonies clash with oceanic layers of synth and guitar to create a nearly ethereal experience. Crossing the moody dancefloor pop of bands such as The Cure and Depeche Mode with the decade-later “shoegazer” scene of Spiritualized and My Bloody Valentine, Now It’s Overhead’s music stretches over multiple genres. The band’s third album, Dark Light Daybreak, which is set to be released this coming September, is the most adventurous yet. Said to juxtopose stark arrangements with symphonic ones while the lyrics range from the beautiful to the tragic, this just might be the record that serves them up to a wider audience. If so, it will be attention they’ve all certainly earned. The Stay Lows and The Missing Planes will open the show.

monday, July 24 at 9pm. Mohawk Place, 47 E. Mohawk St., Buffalo (855-3931). $7