Overcoats early 2020 album The Fight proved eerily prescient in a number of ways, particularly the song 'Fire and Fury', with its references to the sky falling in. But it's the title track 'The Fight' that really gets to the heart of the matter. In a US where people were struggling and constantly fighting to get their voices heard in innumerable campaigns and battles even before Covid-19, 'The Fight' speaks of a sense of weariness and determination in equal measure. "Put the beer down" it begins, "talk to me now." It's a campaigning, fighting song for 2020 that gives hope and solidarity in equal measure but that never, ever pretends its ever anything but hard. "The only time to start is now" they maintain towards the end of the song, and you can't help but agree.
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