Over
Coach Party have spent years doing the hard yards, from support slots with some of the biggest names in rock, to festival stages and relentless touring, and ‘Over’ feels like a band cashing in every last one of those miles. This is not the Coach Party of jangly indie hooks and wry put-downs. This is something altogether heavier, and it suits them extraordinarily well.
The track opens with intent. A wall of guitar that hits immediately and doesn’t let up: thick, driven and completely committed to its own force. Jess Eastwood’s vocals sit above the noise with a precision and control that only makes the whole thing hit harder, her delivery rousing and raw in equal measure, cutting clean through the grit underneath without softening a single edge. The rhythm section locks in with real purpose, and the result is a track that feels designed to rattle walls and loosen teeth.
For fans of Wolf Alice at their most visceral and uncompromising, ‘Over’ lands squarely in that territory. This is accessible hard rock in the truest sense, not light, not polished into submission, but built for people who want to feel something physical when music plays. The kind of track that demands a large room and a loud system.
The guitar solo is the moment that elevates it from very good to genuinely thrilling. It arrives with perfect timing, unhurried and entirely confident, and it delivers the kind of full-body chill that only the best rock moments can manage. It earns its place completely.
‘Over’ is Coach Party at their most unrestrained. Turn it up to 11 and don’t apologise to anyone.
Coach Party – Over
Coach Party are a four-piece indie rock band from the Isle of Wight, fronted by vocalist Jess Eastwood and signed to Chess Club Records. With Glastonbury appearances and support slots for Queens of the Stone Age and Royal Blood behind them, they are one of the UK’s finest live acts.
