Overnight Standard - Chocolate Holiday
Jazz, Folk
Texas, United States
Overall Impression: Overnight Standard weaves engaging soundscapes through organically elementary instrumentations in their immersive original Jazz tune, "Chocolate Holiday"! Texturally complex and tonally warm keys support endearingly eerie vocals and sultry saxophone as Overnight Standard develops in "Chocolate Holiday" a sonic space that seems to be both wide-open and emotionally compact - conveying a longing made material by saccharine lyricism against strikingly intricate, intimately eerie melodic and harmonic motion!
Strongest Point(s): "Chocolate Holiday" displays an artistic attention to nuance with lasting impressions! The simplified format of the "acoustic Jazz quartet" allows each and every compositional choice to impact the listener intimately, drawing them easily into the space with delicate deliveries and accessibly familiar instrumentations before subverting expectations through emotionally resonant and even jarring musical developments! The lead vocal tones are perfect for the style, finding an appropriate warmth and alternately unsettling presence in the track's more colorful moments - riveting the listener in place for the duration of the experience. This is a remarkably well composed piece, and the tension between the lyrical content and melodic contour alone stands to engage listeners thoroughly!
Target Audience Appeal: Listeners with a love for compositional wit and subtle storytelling sensibilities will be drawn headlong into the sound that Overnight Standard is producing! The second track from their 2020 release, Norther Blue, "Chocolate Holiday" offers an intriguing and alluring experience for fans of the Jazz quartet sound, masterfully reduced to its essential components for an unforgettably intricate musical encounter.
Artist target suggestions: Jane Monheit, Patti LaBelle, Ellen Andersson, Tony DeSare, Shirley Horn, Blossom Dearie, Norah Jones, Madeleine Peyroux, Bria Skonberg, Renee Olstead, Diana Krall, Nancy Wilson, Chet Baker, Peggy Lee, Nat King Cole, John Coltrane, Shirley Bassey
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About the Reviewer:
Jon Wright is a trained multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and music educator with nearly twenty years of experience in the field. Working with musicians and their individual sounds is his passion and profession, and he strives to interact with and understand every aspect of the production process - from theory and songwriting to recording and mastering. He continues to teach students of all ages and is currently collaborating with artists in a wide variety of genres