Most music can, with a bit of a push and a shove, be fitted into one sonic camp or another; tagged, labeled, and pigeonholed for the benefit of the discerning music fan. The keyword there is most! Sometimes you come across music so adventurous, so off-kilter, so brilliantly unaffected by fad and fashion, that such easy labels don’t work. That is always the best music.
This is one of those times!
Omnesia’s latest single, “Dangle,” is a song made up of recognisable musical strands but is woven of so many, spliced together from sounds and styles that aren’t usually found working together, certainly not in such heavenly harmony, that it is in a genre of one. It’s a case of while you might recognise the sonic building blocks, the sonic architecture that they result in still dazzles with originality.
Based around vocalist Medella Kingston and guitarist/producer who goes by the cryptic moniker M2, “Dangle” runs on bluesy, hard-rock energy but is then brilliantly shaped into a new sonic form under the influence of electro-pop grooves, almost proggy structures, vintage Hammond organs, new wave sheen, and alternative mindsets.
It’s a strange song, but strange is brilliant, right? Strange is unconventional. Strange is non-conformist. Strange is the antithesis of comfort zones and convention. Strange is what comes next rather than what has gone before. Strange is exciting. Strange is the only way forward!
I have never claimed to be able to see into the future, but I think I may have just caught a trace of what it sounds like!
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