Block has been around long enough that his catalog is getting the full resurrection treatment while a new wave of listeners finds him through playlists. Meridian’s four-part deluxe reissues have pulled old records back into view, he’s picked up fresh press and streams, and his New York residency at KGB’s Red Room has rebuilt him as a present-tense figure, not just an anti-folk footnote. With Love Crash due in May 2026 and “I Thought I Won The War” already breaking internal streaming records and landing on Apple Music’s New in Alternative playlist, “Over And Over” arrives as the darker, stranger follow-up.
This one came out of a bad day. Block talks openly about lifelong OCD, “horrible things in my head, over and over,” and says he walked into the Brooklyn session a wreck. He asked producer Chris Kuffner for a drum loop, got one recorded on the fly at a soundcheck, and built almost everything in a single day: lyrics, melody, most of the instrumentation. Blake Morgan then stepped in to mix and master, as he has across the current Meridian era.
On the surface it reads like an alt-rock single, but the feel leans into your “trip-hoppy, Silent Hill” note. The groove has that lofi sway, the guitars smear out in a psychedelic way, and soft atmospheric pads hang over everything. The vocal drags a melancholic tone across the whole track, keeping the mood heavy even when the rhythm pushes forward. It’s dark, moody, and slightly unsettled.
“Over And Over” sits neatly in the story Meridian is pushing this year: a long-running writer who finally has his old work restored and his new material landing with fresh ears. For anyone arriving through the Apple playlist or the reissues, this single shows the other side of Block’s catalog—the part that leans into discomfort and lets the unease stay on the surface.
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