Overhead, The Albatross are soaring high with own brand of instrumental rock

Named after a Pink Floyd song, Irish group Overhead, The Albatross are impressing with their new album, writes Eoghan O’Sullivan.

FORMED in the depths of the recession in 2009, Dublin-based six-piece Overhead, The Albatross have just self-released their debut album, Learning To Growl. Bassist Joe Panama (his real name, he clarifies; “It’s a Mayan name, from Guatamala or El Salvador”) says the album has been a long time coming but they didn’t want to rush things.

“We could’ve released two iterations of the album in that time but we didn’t because they weren’t good, ready, fully formed. This one is the perfect album, it’s an accurate representation of what we wanted to do [with] our first album. Anything else before that would’ve been selling ourselves short and I think it would’ve been a disservice to people who had been waiting as well.”