Pressing Concerns: Hour, The Smashing Times, Song People, Classic Traffic

This is the Thursday Pressing Concerns! It’s got new albums from Hour, Song People, and Classic Traffic, plus a reissue of an album from The Smashing Times. Earlier this week, the September 2026 playlist went up, so check that out too. If you’re looking for more new music, you can visit the site directory to see what else we’ve written about lately. If you’d like to support Rosy Overdrive, you can share this (or another) post, or donate here. Hour – Ghost Bridge Release date: October 9th Record label: Dear LifeGenre: Post-rock, contemporary classical, orchestral, chamber musicFormats: Vinyl, CD, digitalPull Track: So Long Without a Word We checked up on the chamber music/contemporary classical ensemble Hour in 2024 when they put out their fourth studio album, Ease the Work, and then again in February of last year when they put out the live album Subminiature. While releasing folk-leaning music under his own name, drumming in the alt-country group Friendship, and co-running Dear Life…