Unrelenting and unapologetic, OK Resort’s heavy-hitting ‘Come and Discover Me’ EP is an invigorating, angst-fueled document for all wayward and wandering souls in want of a pop-punk anchor to name residence.

Stream: “Get Out” – OK Resort

OOk Resort’s sophomore EP opens with a gut-punch: “Assist me please, as a result of all the pieces’s scaring the hell out of me,” Josh Fogarty begs, his roaring voice a beacon of internal churn and charged emotion. “I don’t wish to be a freak, ’trigger you by no means cared.” Angst marries uncooked, feverish power because the Australian alt-rock band ship their heaviest reckoning but, concurrently diving deeper and hovering larger than ever earlier than as they confront their turbulent twenties head-on.

“Come and discover me within the deep finish,” Fogarty sings, inviting us to affix within the havoc and enterprise additional into his fever dream. “Come and discover me, I’ll be weightless.” Unrelenting and unapologetic, OK Resort’s heavy-hitting Come and Discover Me is an inspiring, invigorating document for all wayward and wandering souls in want of a pop-punk anchor to name residence.

Assist me please
As a result of all the pieces’s scaring the hell out of me
I don’t wish to be a freak
‘Trigger you by no means cared

Now we’re determined and helpless
On a lifeboat going nowhere
Come and discover me within the deep finish
Come and discover me, I’ll be weightless

Don’t suppose twice simply gotta hear you say
I, I, I wanna get out yet one more time
Do you wanna really feel mе?
Simply gotta hear you say
I, I, I wanna get out, for the sunshinе
I, I, I wanna get out yet one more time

– “Get Out,” OK Resort

Independently launched July 19, 2023, Come and Discover Me is turmoil unleashed in cathartic waves of ardour and pure alt-rock euphoria. The follow-up to 2020’s debut EP Keep Shiny finds Wollongong’s OK Resort – the trio of Josh Fogarty, Liam Jordan and Chris Peruch – honing their craft as songwriters, storytellers, and performers suddenly. Impressed by emo, grunge, ’90s submit punk, and extra, the band’s definitively various sound feels impressively timeless, for what it’s – a testomony to the unbridled humanity they pour into each one among their songs, be it an anthem, power-ballad, or one thing in-between.

“We mainly wrote and recorded the entire thing above a document retailer!” Fogarty tells Atwood Journal. “We’d clock in at about 10 each morning and generally end up at round 1-2 AM. We had some tremendous lengthy days and began to go a bit stir loopy cooped up within the management room. On the primary day of recording the studio began to flood from this loopy storm and we had been all kinda pondering ‘yeah that’s it the document’s finished,’ which ended up being a little bit of a vibe killer became a ‘wow something’s potential now’ Disney-type second. It’s the primary time we labored collectively cohesively with the brand new line-up on a launch, and there have been plenty of moments that actually acquired the sparks going. A number of the songs began in 2019, so it felt actually nice to lastly put stuff below the microscope and whip them into form with the time crunch component.”

“We wished this one to sound extra just like the band enjoying in a room with push and pull,” he provides. “An enormous a part of that was doing dwell drums for our pre manufacturing. We thought hopefully it will showcase the band a bit rawer and emotional than the final EP, hopefully it paid off, however we simply wished it to be this loud emo soundtrack that takes all of the issues concerning the bands we love and grew up with and put our personal factor onto it.”

“With the document’s uncooked feeling there’s much less house to cover, and it’s positively the truest model of ourselves we’ve given anybody. It’s a showcase of our all separate areas of curiosity in recording strategies, songwriting and guitar whereas making the document we wish to make with out a lot exterior strain or deal with validation.”

The EP’s title Come and Discover Me speaks as a lot to the lyrics’ themes, as to the musicality of those seven songs. “It’s a line from our first single ‘Get Out,’” Fogarty explains. “I really feel prefer it describes the sprawlingness of the document once I hear.”

Reality be instructed, there’s rather a lot to take from these tracks. From the aforementioned opener “Get Out,” in all its gut-spilling gusto, to the searing ear-splitter “Straightforward to Say” and the heated, smoldering seduction “Let You Go,” OK Resort seize each our ears and our hearts.

Even the tender finale “How one can Love” is a cinematic, aching triumph, with larger-than-life guitars churning alongside Fogarty’s emotional wail as he sings, “Then if you noticed her out on the water, you received’t really feel what I really feel if you don’t love me… if you don’t love me… if you don’t love me…“

Once more, the easiest way to explain this EP is as a seismic gut-punch.

“My private spotlight can be the final monitor on the document, ‘How To Love,’ Fogarty says, smiling. “It’s a extremely heavy music lyrically and instrumentally. Seeing it go from an acoustic music in my bed room to an enormous ending of the document feels nice.”

This document additionally represents a degree of lyrical progress for the band, and Fogarty says he has loads of proud traces scattered all through. “There’s plenty of moments that make me really feel I mentioned one thing effectively or summed up one thing relatable with out saying an excessive amount of,” he displays.

“I’m actually proud of the second verse in ‘Get Out.’ I usually battle writing second verses however that one feels so good, “Assist me please, i’ve been ready right here eternally however the sharks received’t ever depart, swimming circles round me, just like the a part of you in all the pieces that i might by no means see.” It’s about somebody impacting you negatively and all their associated traumas are surrounding you consistently, however you’re so accustomed to it, it simply feels regular.”

Standing on the shoulders of giants like Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Taking Again Sunday, and Fall Out Boy, Come and Discover Me captures unadulterated angst higher than any document we’ve heard all yr.

“I assume I would like individuals to love it, however hopefully in addition they resonate with the themes I’m writing about,” Fogarty shares. “Perhaps a lyric will help you join one thing a couple of scenario you’re going via and even flip a perspective round. We had a lot enjoyable making this, now it’s yours!”

Expertise the complete document by way of our under stream, and peek inside OK Resort’s Come and Discover Me EP with Atwood Journal because the band goes track-by-track via the music and lyrics of their sophomore EP!

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Get Out

We’d been enjoying this music dwell for a couple of yr earlier than we really sat down and made the document. It was positively the one we had been most eager about fleshing out within the studio. Liam despatched me his unique model for the music again in 2020 and we sort of went backwards and forwards with concepts. It was the primary basis we needed to make the document on, so all of it sort of developed like a mission assertion from that.

Straightforward to Say

This occurred proper on the finish of pre manufacturing as a ‘now let’s do a quick one’ second. Usually with songs one among us simply presents one thing and we go from there however this time all of us wrote the totally different guitar sections; Chris made the verse/pre refrain, Liam made the refrain/lead and josh made the intro/submit refrain. All of it got here collectively in about half-hour.

Let You Go

We had about 4 alternate variations earlier than letting the mud decide on this one. I used to be nonetheless engaged on lyrics till the day we tracked vocals and I feel we even made a change a couple of days earlier than it acquired mastered, however apparently sufficient all of it fell into place. It’s a extremely heavy and mandatory second. I’m glad we roughed it out.

Break

This ones a Liam monitor. It crept onto the recording record every week or so earlier than without having a lot work. Its acquired a extremely distinctive refrain raise that immediately grabbed me concerning the demo.

Right here Perpetually

The riff out began in early 2020 and had 3 totally different choruses and numerous re-structures. Liam ended up re writing the ultimate refrain every week or so earlier than vocal monitoring. After we first began enjoying it appeared like a rustic music and all the time felt a bit off. Remodeling the vocal was extremely difficult as a result of we acquired so use to the music. It nearly didn’t get there, however we made it.

Just like the Solar

Recording guitars right here was so enjoyable as a result of we let it get actually heavy. The bridge is one among my favorite components of the document and it completely nails the weezer vibe we had been going for. We had this enormous loopy riff outro we in the end ended up scrapping to only this empty snare hit, then Liam added the the acoustic outro proper earlier than mastering.

How one can Love

We tried making an alternatively structured model of this like different songs on the document, however this time it simply got here again to the beginning. It’s this heavy ballad monitor that we predict completed the document completely. It’s acquired this enormous deftones like launch on the finish and recording the vocals for that music was an enormous accomplishment.

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