Album Reviews

Listening to ‘Overthinking Everything’, it is pretty obvious that front Ryan Nolen grew up in the early 00’s with the songs of Blink-182, Third Eye Blind, and Jimmy Eat World as the soundtrack. Accompanied by Adam Siska, Liam Burns, Robbie Kuntz and snow ellet, Footballhead emerges from the Chicago suburbs with a sound that is drenched in hook-laden… well, what? Is it alt-rock? Emo? Pop punk? Let’s go with all of the above.

The one thing they all have in common? Well, two things actually. All of the songs on ‘Overthinking Everything’ come with a sense of instant familiarity and they all sound friggin’ amazing. Whether it’s opener ‘Rug’, ‘Tightrope’ or the quieter shoegaze-y ‘Like A Blister’ or the unholy coupling of Death Cab ForCutie and Pinback that is ‘Are You Sorry On The Way Back Down?’, this album is like a trip down memory lane. Which is not meant as a diss at all. There’s a reason we still listen to those songs 20 years later. And here’s a whole fresh batch of ‘em!

Overthinking Everything track list:

1. Rug
2. Snowball
3. Tightrope
4. Like A Blister
5. Habits
6. Talking Nonsense
7. Are You Sorry On The Way Back Down?
8. Ugly Day
9. Pilot
10. Etched You In
11. So I Stay (Petty)
12. My Plan
13. Overthinking Everything