Photo Credit: Sophia Borchers

On November 7, 2025, Cati Landry released a heart-wrenching single, “Overdrive,“ which sheds light on grief and how it can be hard to accept at times, but we learn how to live with it. “Overdrive“ is a single that softens the jagged edges of emotional turmoil a person may feel when experiencing something traumatic in their life. Landry uses her lyricism and gentle guitar tones, along with her harmonic vocals, to enhance the storytelling of this single. This single holds so much warmth that it allows the listener to understand that grief may cover your mindset with darkness, but the beauty behind it is that we still have those memories — and that’s what sheds some light. “Overdrive“ is a ballad for those who are stuck in the echoes of holding onto someone or something that is no longer around and not realizing they can reconnect with the world around them. A traumatic experience can cause mental chaos, but at the same time, it can teach you that grief is a powerful emotion — one that can help you push yourself to learn that life is filled with brightness, and that darkness is part of it.

“Sometimes we lose something or someone, and it feels so big and grand-scale that it’s almost a private apocalypse, making you feel disconnected from life around you. Alone in your inner world, you’re in distress, but there’s this devastating faultline or fracture between the space you’re in and the present reality. Try as you might, you can’t reason or explain that type of pain away, or maybe even fully understand it. You want to run towards the horizon line or scream into the sky to get a sign, because it feels bigger and more powerful than you are. When I was living in that every day, my heart would sometimes go into overdrive, and so this is a song about trying to learn to live with that. It’s a pure confession of everything pent up that I’d been feeling.” – Cati Landry

Written by Cati Landry and produced by Neil Wogensen, Cati teams up with JD Carrera (steel guitar)
and Parker Law (drums) for this incredibly personal ballad. Recorded at Little Crow Studio in Highland
Park, L.A., “Overdrive” captures the ache of grief transformed into grace.