Omni
Multi-Task

LA RECENSIONE

Omni is a project formed by Frankie Broyles (formerly of Deerhunter) and Philip Frobos (Carnivores). With this album here, titled 'Multi-Task', the group is on their second release in two years after their debut 'Deluxe', which came out in July 2016, also via Trouble In Mind Records, the label that has taken the duo under its protective wing.

The album was produced by Nathaniel Higgins and recorded during different sessions at Higgins' own home and in a small recording studio lost in the woods near the city of Vienna, Georgia, United States of America.

Basically, 'Multi-Task' reprises the same formula as the previous album and reintroduces that revival of a certain post-punk and wave music that formed the underlying theme of 'Deluxe'.

The compositions are mostly short, virtually instantaneous, real 'blitzes' that never essentially exceed three minutes, characterized by the predominant role of the bass, whose sound is typically enveloping and takes up typical patterns from bands like Television or generally vintage and seventies, sometimes introducing shades of funk, while the role of the guitar is effectively secondary and mostly limited to accompaniment as in the tradition of no-wave and a certain intellectual wave.

Also compared to bands like Wire or Talking Heads, the group closest to and the point of reference for the Atlanta-originating duo is probably Devo, whose sounds and that intellectual schizophrenia and at-the-edge experimentalism they try to emulate. But in essence, 'Multi-Task' is what one might instead define as an indie rock-styled music proposal with attempts at math-rock, primarily due to the schematization of some compositions and probably more enjoyable in the live dimension where the duo might surprise with their more eccentric side and a certain garage soul that, all in all, can be glimpsed between one composition and another, rather than on record.