Hailing from Sweden, Omrade are a duo that have this
interesting of a spacey trip-hop adventure between the Avant-Garde sounds of
Ambient, Electronica, Post-Rock, Industrial music in which it has this
captivating combination, but with an ominous and haunting atmosphere which is
evidential on their debut album, Edari
released on the My Kingdom Music label this year.
When I was listening to their debut album, I can hear the
sounds of Ulver, Manes, and Gazpacho. And also it reminded me of something that
they could have used as if they had done it as a score of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks. It was almost as if they
music have added the bits and pieces of the puzzle on what is to come on the
characters plot twist as if the series had continued on with more of the who,
what, when, and why.
It has the sounds of the futuristic atmosphere and also,
dystopian at the same time of what the cities have now become a disturbing
scenery and Omrade’s music sets it of where the characters go into. There are
moments where its powerful, calming, softer, and eruptive at the same time and
not to mention the spoken word elements thrown in.
But, there are four highlights on the album that is worth
taken note of. On Satellite and Narrow, which
features Asphodel on the vocals, begins with a minor-like piano chords followed
by which almost features the sounds of Tuvan throat singing as Asphodel comes
in with her vocals that just sends shivers down my spine on the double-tracking
vocals as the electronic trip-hop industrial metal sounds come in that knocks
the door down with a powerful punch, makes it hypnotic.
Meanwhile, Åben Dør is
a strange and twisted track that you can imagine being inside of the mental
asylum and hearing the sounds of the patients whimpering, screaming, and
screeching out in pain. It’s almost as if Omrade were paying tribute by working
with The Residents as if they were going into the Trip Hop section.
The opening track Mótsögn starts off with a calming
ambient vocalization and ominous introduction. It has calming vocals, blaring
trumpet solos and later, a laid-back sax with a jazzy feel, Omrade gives the
listener go into the darker side with a moody and an intentional mood to see
where they would take the listener into next.
Ottaa Sen in which it closes the album it
is perhaps a brilliance of an ascending finale. Synths setting the introduction
for a futuristic atmosphere a-la Blade
Runner style with a Vangelis touch to it for an introduction. Then it
climbs up to the snarling vocals and the electronic Industrial sounds filled
with death metal and heading off into the middle-eastern midsection and clean
vocals to close the composition to see where the road will go to next.
Edari is not an easy album to
listen to from start to finish, but what they duo has done, is they really got something up their sleeves
to go into those worlds and they nailed it perfectly to a “T”. It is an
interesting combination between Industrial, Avant-Garde, Electronic, and Trip
Hop rolled into one and what Omrade have accomplished very well into the sounds of their first album.
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