Adrift by La Overtoner

About: This album was conceived in early 2017 without a defined direction. It began in fits and starts and then with long periods of nothing in between, finally ending with a cymbals crash on February 11, 2021. On a personal level, there was a great deal of soul searching in trying to complete it
Should I bother? Should I let it drift into a lost consciousness never to be heard by anyone but me on my demos?
I definitely considered it...
But I loved the songs and wanted to let it be heard -every single one- culminating with what I feel is the best keyboard counter melody song I ever wrote in Adrift. To me that song encapsulates what is going on now. Not just in the year of a pandemic, but in a trailing off into the musical wasteland as the digital age grows more and more dominant.

Songs/Recording: beginning with the live tracking of Opium and Keep in March of 2017, and then almost a year later in early 2018 with You Wonder Why, White Room, M.D.Pill, and Basketball... and then I lost track of what happened next... the time: it flies by when you let it.
The rest of the songs were tracked with me solo by Bruce Siekmann at the controls in his Amoeba studio, then adding Andrew Amey on drums in the studio a little later on, and slowly built up track by track later on from Dave, Mike and more from myself.
I had planned to finish and release in the spring of 2020 but the coronavirus was having none of it. So I waited and waited... until I could wait no more. Later in the fall of 2020 I got the help of my talented bandmates to record at their own houses then Bruce and I started putting it all together from everyone in their bubble. I also received a huge helping hand from some great musician friends: Billy Whalen, Marie Chelius, Brad and Andria Hinton, Todd Notobartolo, Cory Heller, Mike Lavdanski, and Andy Januzak. Their contributions can't be understated, the songs on the album were fully blossomed with their help.

I feel its the great white whale I have had the fortune of surviving to tell the tale. It is here for you, please listen to it.
It speaks to me, I hope it does for you as well.

Johnny