The Overlook to Release Debut Album Say It on October 30

The Overlook will release its debut album, Say It, on October 30 via Phenotypic Recordings. The album brings together six works after five years, reflecting the quartet's first five years by returning to works that help explain its reason for being. The Overlook focuses on exploring and featuring music they believe deserves attention. Shelley Washington's first single, Say, has been released.

The six works run through themes such as folk-rooted Americana, biracial identity, the Great Migration, overlooked songwriting, mathematical probability, and music inspired by the cosmos. Trevor Weston's Juba opens the album and traces African and African American musical traditions. Shanan Estreicher's I Laughed So Hard I Cried, for Judee Sill focuses on another artist. Leila Adu-Gilmore's if the stars align… highlights Pickett's viola. Forbes Graham's Crossing came through one of the quartet's Instagram open calls, and Carlos Simon closes the album with Warmth from Other Suns.