Hailing from Meath, Ireland, One Flew Over offers bluesy, rootsy, hard-stomping rock with guts and gusto. Their latest single, “Last Man Standing,” a barn-burner in the style of The Black Keys, Adelle, and Amy Winehouse, would feel right at home playing along with the opening credits of any limited-series crime drama on HBO or Netflix. Lyrically speaking, the song eyes love and obsession from a clear-eyed perspective that only experience can teach: “You rest in Memory Row, way down deep where only darkness knows, I hear your whisper calling to me sweet.” Clearly, there’s a lot to unpack here as the tension between dark and sweet memories reveals the complexity of adult relationships. Love isn’t blind, in other words. It’s conflicted.
Musically, “Last Man Standing” is as sophisticated and haunting as it is lyrically. The song opens with a soft tambourine jangling like wind through the faded curtains of an open window, a subtle invocation of long-buried memories. Yeah, I’m doing fine, a ghost sings, lost in the ghostly reverb of distant years gone by. The guitars are fuzzy and churning but not overbearing. The drums chug along like a steam engine. The overall effect is to suggest that we’re in hazy, swampy territory, both geographically and spiritually. This is the music of memory, the music of spirits, the music of a past that refuses to let us go—at least not for very long. In fact, one of the most charming elements of “Last Man Standing” is its stop-on-a-dime cadences. We’re chugging forward until we’re not, pausing just long enough to get our bearings in the emotional miasma of life before plunging back into the abyss.
Ultimately, “Last Man Standing” is a song of strength. Love can be haunting and rife with conflicted yearning. Sometimes we want what we can’t have, and sometimes we want what we know is bad for us. But sometimes we can also move on, and that act of moving on can be the greatest revenge. Sure, we sometimes look back on the lives and loves we’ve lost, but “Last Man Standing” powerfully reminds us that we can also rest assured that the lovers who’ve left us are also doing the same.
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At any moment on any given day, you can find Marc Schuster engaging in any number of activities: assembling his weekly radio show, interviewing musicians for his blog, laying down drum tracks for various artists, rehearsing for the next show with Philadelphia-based power-pop band Scoopski (in which he plays bass), recording music for his own wide-ranging projects (solo and otherwise), experimenting with film and animation, or designing album covers and concert posters for fellow musicians. On top of all that, he’s full-time college professor with a healthy catalog of publications to his name, including a book on the Beach Boys’ Holland album and an illustrated children’s book titled “Frankie Lumlit’s Janky Drumkit.” Our beloved host of the Tweetcore Radio Hour here on AMS Radio is one to keep busy. Learn more about him and connect online:
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Notes from the editor:
Couldn’t agree more with Marc’s assessment on the cinematic sound that this artist conveys. It was something that jumped out at me right away too, aside from a “tip of the hat” to one of my favorite cinematic movies in the artist’s name itself. Yet, at the same time, One Flew Over‘s vocal prowess also resonates with me in an earthy, bluesy, grit kind of way similar to that of things like Brandi Carlile. Check out “Last Man Standing” and more new music by independent artists on AMS Radio’s featured Apple playlist “Indie Anarchy,” as well as our featured Tidal playlist “Sui-TIDAL-Tendencies.”
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