The Miserable Rich – Overcome (2024)    


Review:
The PR accompanying Overcome states ‘The Miserable Rich return after a decade-long hiatus with their fourth album, born of trauma but also a testament to the joy of deep friendship’. Those who have previously enjoyed their English-layered, string-laden, chamber music style will not be disappointed. It has everything the previous albums have had but this time a little more. It sounds like a straightforward light-hearted album initially however further listening reveals the depth and structures that define their work. They have added piano and brass and electronics this time which give even more complexity and on ‘Taken ‘even a child’s voice. James de Malplaquet’s voice is very distinctive and does seem to have a huge upper range in some cases almost falsetto. The harmonies on all the tracks are very nicely tailored and work very well, giving it an overall very rich feel, including an almost Pink Floydesc female addition on ‘Probably Will’. The mixture of speech and song on ‘If Only’ has given the track an almost nostalgic sensitivity. The first single taken from the album ‘Crows’ paints a very bleak picture of a world on the brink of destruction where Crows become unexpected protagonists in a very dark foreboding atmosphere that man has created. Very intense Hitchcockian stuff. ‘Glue’ seems a very personal song about broken dreams and builds very slowly it includes strings towards the end and is a very moving song. ‘FHS’ is actually a very jolly affair with some nice New Orleans brass making it. — americanaUK


   


Track List:
01 - Ballad of Young Finn
02 - Crows
03 - Everything Bright and New
04 - FHS
05 - Glue
06 - If Only
07 - Penny For
08 - Probably Will
09 - Quietly
10 - Taken
11 - We All Know
12 - Poem for Suzanne


Media Report:
Genre: chamber pop, indie-folk
Origin: Brighton, England
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits
Compression mode: Lossless
Writing library: libFLAC 1.2.1 (UTC 2007-09-17)


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