Omi Palone, by Omi Palone

Omi Palone

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Rob This album is a gem. The '80s New Zealand sensibility and sound equal the excitement it evokes, just like when listening to those Flying Nun records back in the day. Every song is a good one. Favorite track: World Outside.

AJT While 'Architecture' may, with good reason, dominate proceedings 'Shallow Divide' has such bizarrely echoed, languid determination that it really stands as a pitchfork among the greater maturity elsewhere. There are happy parallels to Ash way back, too. Positive pop wrapped in incongruence.

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	1.	World Outside 02:50
	2.	Architecture 03:07
	3.	On And On 02:56
	4.	Void 03:02
	5.	Shallow Divide 03:30
	6.	Follow Your Visions 03:07
	7.	~ 03:27
	8.	Sleepwalk 02:20

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Following their long sold-out self-released cassette of 2011 and two split 7”’s in 2012, Omi Palone will release their debut self-titled long-player as a joint release between Faux Discx and new label Negative Space.

The 8-track record is a frenetic fuzz-tinged pop headrush of barely-restrained punk outbursts. Singer-guitarist Philip Serfaty's deep and sleepy baritone reverberates over urgent, rushing chord progressions and incisive rhythmic precision. Frantic jangling guitar hooks fall away to one-chord motorik chug, hypnotic drone and looming fuzz, giving the tracks a hounded, runaway feel.

Finding strength in brevity, the band explores and experiments with what can be expressed in a 3 minute post-punk song; controlled, complex melodies interweaving in amongst simple (but not simplistic) repetitive structures, interrupted only by stomping middle-eights.
Artistic allegiances nod towards an Antipodean influence: the output of 80s New Zealand labels such as Flying Nun & Xpressway, as well as the current Australian punk scene.

Having aborted two previous recording sessions at two different studios in 2012, the band found a home at Homerton’s Sound Savers, where they honed their sound and, under the supervision of Mark Jasper, laid the record down onto quarter-inch tape in late Spring and early Summer of 2013.

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released April 14, 2014

Recorded and mixed by Mark Jasper at Sound Savers
Mastered by Joe Caithness at Subsequent Mastering.
Cover artwork by Lucy Anstey; featuring a risograph insert printed by Sophie Alda.

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