Finally available in Europe... OMA's second album. From 202. The first one on (clear ocean green) vinyl.
An electronic splinter group comprising members of UK-based noise-punk
DIY underground stalwarts Action Beat, OMA (Dutch for "Grandmother") are
Don McLean, Harry Taylor, James Carney, Bianca Biblioni, and G.W. Sok -
former vocalist with The Ex - now presenting their second album, "Under
The World".
With the core
members geographically separate (situated between Bletchley, New York
City, Manchester and Rotterdam), but united by a shared desire to
explore electronic music elements, "Under The World"
began in 2018 as an online exchange of ideas, improvisations and
drop-boxed WAV files. Culminating in an in-person collaboration in July
2019 at the "holiday home on acid", Devon Analogue Studio (described by McLean as being "full of vintage synths we definitely couldn't afford").
The
result is an extraordinarily dark record charting a murky parasonic
subterrain all of its own, an exhilarating, defoliated, forbiddingly
woozy sound that merges brittle electronic rhythms with morose ambience,
sideways humour, even moments of raw emotive grief - serving, both in
process and in sound, as an eerie anticipation of the face-masked,
disinformatic dystopia of the COVID-wracked world now receiving it.
Tracklist
- Ex Raver 5:39
- Simple Desire 2:41
- Eye in the Sky 3:39
- Eternally Sinking 2:56
- Shut the Door 3:59
- Smoke You 3:45
- Checklist of Regret 3:44
- Processing Decision 4:16
- Crossing 5:00
- The Solution 0:33
- That God Of Yours 2:12
- Ello Veeyee 2:28
- Under the world 3:11
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