New UK alt-shoegaze band OVERSIZE release new single ‘Vacant’

New UK alt-shoegaze band OVERSIZE release new single ‘Vacant’

22nd January 2025 0 By Jon Deaux

OVERSIZE have revealed their new single ‘Vacant’, another glimpse of their stunning debut album Vital Signs, due 28th February 2025 via SharpTone

Stream: https://bfan.link/vacant-1

Of the single, the band commented: “‘Vacant’ is one of the few album tracks that made its way into our live set pre-release, it’s one of our favorite songs to play live and we’re really stoked to release it as the last single before our album comes out.

“Lyrically the song focuses around a lack of connection and communication with the people around you, how easy it is to get complacent and not check in with someone, or open up with how you’re really feeling.”

OVERSIZE has already turned the heads of many tastemakers in the UK scene, with rave reviews and rapt attention from Dan P. Carter, Alyx Holcombe, and Jack Saunders at BBC R1. In their short time as a band, OVERSIZE has already performed at Outbreak Festival and supported Militarie Gun, Higher Power, Fiddlehead, Boston Manor, and many more.

Although still very much in their infancy, the group – which formed in the South West of England – has already developed a fully formed, personal sound. Elements of post-hardcore, alternative metal, shoegaze, and emo combine to create a deliriously heady effect. While the band doesn’t shy away from their love of alternative 90’s music, and a love of HUM, The Smashing Pumpkins, Deftones, and Pixies, OVERSIZE has very little interest in being sonically tied to the past.

The bandmembers’ shared experience of writing and playing live together has found them carving out their own space within the alternative scene, in just a handful of years. Exploring the vast range of dynamics within their music, songs drift between atmospheric textures to loud fuzzy riffs, magnifying and complimenting the personal and often venerable vocals.

Watch OVERSIZE live:

08.03 – Southampton, Heartbreakers
14.03 – Birmingham, Asylum 2
15.03 – Manchester, YES
21.03 – London, New Cross Inn
27.03 – Bristol, The Exchange
9-12.07 – 2000trees Festival

OVERSIZE are:

Sam Shutler – drums
Sam McCauley – vocals
George Lewis – bass
Tazz Edwards – guitar
Lewis Lennane-Emm – guitar

OVERSIZE online:
https://www.instagram.com/oversizeband
https://www.facebook.com/oversizeband
https://x.com/oversizebandxl

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