专辑简介

Singer-songwriter David Garza knows how to write a catchy song. Overdub's opening track, "Drone," gets its hooks in you immediately--cutting and pasting folky rhythms with layers of piano, bass-heavy beats, and eclectic guitar playing, while Garza's quick-lipped rhymes speak about growing up and losing your spark. On this self-produced album, though, Garza is far from losing his spark. He takes witty shots at the music industry ("Poor Jesus still trying to cross over" from "Say Baby"), turns the gospel on its head ("Praise the Lord and shake your a** / kingdom come coming fast" from "God's Hands"), and croons like a modern-day Roy Orbison ("Alone"), closing out with a sweet slow-dance number called "Let Me." With his voice sounding off in an Elvis folk-warble, the songs on Overdub are packed with an unusual energy that spreads across the musical map. The slick production work aims this album straight for the mainstream, but as Garza is a master of both the slow ballad and the quirky rock collage, his talents keep him from blending into the same old song-and-dance routine gripping the current adult-alternative scene.