New Pine Overcoat
Our friends at The Cage wrote wonderfully about New Pine Overcoat / Angel
“Hovercraft keeps finding new ways to make familiar feelings hit with startling force.”
“Angel proves Hovercraft knows exactly how to make vulnerability sound triumphant.”
“Hovercraft delivers the kind of release that reminds you why music matters.”
Mike Mineo over at Obscure Sounds reviewed New Pine Overcoat / Angel:
“…Warm, folk-rooted guitar tones… dreamy vocal intoxication… heartbreak-laden introspection”
Both these tracks are quality displays of songwriting and heartfelt emotion
Illustrate Magazine reviewed New Pine Overcoat / Angel and Blown Away.
fragile art rescued from oblivion
a messy and vulnerable final flare shot into the void
A review of New Pine Overcoat at Lost In The Manor:
“…the messy and grand experience of being young”
The songwriting is pretty immaculate
New Pine Overcoat / Angel reviewed in Apricot Magazine:
“…like an apparition from the mid-90s… a drifting folk descent… a joke, a warning, a prophecy… a gentle unraveling”
subtle, poetic, and quietly devastating
A little closer to Grimsby, Graeme Smith’s York Calling reviewed New Pine Overcoat / Angel.
…never stops sounding beautiful and sweet.
Big thanks to Miguel Castillo for his amazing reviews at La Caverna.
New Pine Overcoat / Angel: “…the spirit of a youth oscillating between idealism and fatalism….evoking a world where hope and exhaustion coexist…a devastating portrait of loss, dependency, and bitter resilience.”
…a double release that perfectly embodies its raw, emotional and deeply human aesthetic.
Blown Away: “…the fantasy of escaping reality while admitting the impossibility of sustaining a heroic facade….addictions, disenchantment, vulnerability and the desperate search for meaning.”
…an acidic portrait of British youth, drenched in endless nights and existential disorientation.
A couple of really terrific reviews over at Hit Harmony Haven.
New Pine Overcoat/ Angel: “…raw, human, and unmistakably real… the kind of lyric Britpop could have produced but rarely did… ahead of its time… an emotional arc that feels less like a demo reconstruction and more like a cinematic short film.”
Hovercraft’s revival is not simply nostalgic, but restorative. It bridges time, technology, memory, and grief, turning the act of musical resurrection into an artistic statement of its own.
And Blown Away: “…an emotional excavation… stylish, restless, and subtly melancholic beneath the adrenaline… swagger laid over vulnerability, noise layered over doubt… hypnotic soundscapes… a unique dream-blues sensibility.”
Hovercraft presents not the polished fantasy of what the band could have been, but the flawed, brilliant, beating heart of what it was.
Our friends at Sinusoidal in India reviewed New Pine Overcoat / Angel and Blown Away.
a chance to face the pain, instead of running away from it.
Songwriting, with purpose
Dave Franklin reviewed New Pine Overcoat (“brilliantly mercurial”) and Angel (“wonderfully not quite what it seems”) at The Big Takeover.
What would the Hovercraft story have been had they gone the distance? What would the modern popscape look like today if things had been different? We can only imagine.
