There’s just so much noise – everywhere. And it’s only getting louder and more distracting. It’s not just in the street, or social media, or the constant pinging and buzzing of your phone, it’s not just the backdrop of social media and the babble in the street… The pace of life is changing, and it seems like there’s no downtime, no respite, no peace. And the noise… the noise is a distraction. Its function is to fill your head, keep you anxious and on edge and looking, not the other way, but in all directions at once, apart from the one where you might see something. The noise exists to keep everyone in place, to entice you to buy more stuff you don’t need with money you don’t have. We are all drowning the static flow, which runs 24/7, 365. How to deal with all this noise? And how to counteract it? With more noise, of course. Disruptive noise. Fight fire with fire – or noise with noise of a different kind.
This album is that disruptive noise, which holds a mirror to it all and subverts and refracts it in infinite splintering directions. It’s an all-out assault on the endless stream of static and distraction, the chatter and hum.
This time around, Omnibdgr are doing things differently. Expanded to a trio and with a live drummer for the first time, there’s a newfound freedom from the constraints of programming. They all played live in the same room, embracing the bleed of other sounds in the mics, and this is the glorious, rebellious result. And ‘bleed’ is the word: Drowning in the Static Flow bludgeons away like never before, blunt and brutal, and loud enough to blow all the other noise away.
The live drums create a different dynamic and stand at the fore of a sound that’s percussion driven and bass heavy. Then, there’s everything else. And it’s all going off.
They may be underground, but Omnibdgr are the uprising, the sound of that vital rupture, the noise of resistance.
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