Omega Tribe – Energy Pop Punk Rock (Develop Your Personal)
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The most recent album from Omega Tribe is a nicely crafted pop file with a mixture of protest and love songs. Taking in a spread of kinds from the 60s and 70s, it’s a Energy Pop extravaganza constructing on Omega Tribe’s punk rock roots. Nathan Brown say these important messages deserve mainstream air play.
Following on the heels of their final pop oriented providing in June 2023, Omega Tribe take us on a journey thorough the prime British pop panorama of the 60s and 70s.
Anti-Authorities Forces flies the anarcho message flag in a track that has very robust mod influenced 60s and 70s vibes. There are components of Small Faces and the refrain takes the same melodic strategy to Chicory Tip’s “Son Of My Father” – very catchy.
Persevering with in the same vein, Nasty Brutal Individuals lays naked the titillation of how the media demonises the poor and needy for “regular respectable individuals”, sowing division. Musically I’m listening to a Mott The Hoople and early Bowie affect.
Goddess, exploring themes of nature and sexuality, dons platform boots and evokes the golden years of glam rock beginning with a refrain of claps earlier than the uneven riff kicks in. A robust T-Rex vibe combines with the Bowie affect and a contact of Slade. A love track, The First Time may be very a lot a straightforward listening affair pushed by acoustic guitar, full with Spanish guitar type break, sounding just like the form of pop file which might get Radio 2 airplay and a slot on a Daytime TV present, if Omega Tribe have been enjoying the music enterprise recreation.
The eerie, considerably disturbing Animal is graphic about the best way people mistreat and “personal” animals and musically jogs my memory of late 70s Hawkwind of their Quark Strangeness and Appeal/Hawklords mode.
Opening up Facet 2, Important Employees is catchy and possibly essentially the most punky tune on this file. It’s obtained the jaunty pop-punk bounce of bands like Eastfield and The Neurotics with a contact of indie. The refrain, “We’re important staff. You can’t survive with out us.” is a message to the rich whose opulence is offered by the labour of others. A lot of the viewers most likely “wipe your arse…drive the automotive, drive the bus…stack the cabinets..save your life”. That is the tune that ought to get Omega Tribe airplay on Radio 6 if you already know somebody who could make it so…
The introspective confessional Angel units a negotiation to entry heaven atop a loungey tune that builds from a reggae influenced again beat into one other Bowie-esque second. Upside Down is one other protest track, taking a look at “the world turned the wrong way up with unsuitable ‘uns sitting on the high” that sounds prefer it may have been a semi-acoustic 90s indie-pop hit.
There’s no prizes for guessing that How I Love You is one other love track, atmospheric with piano and violin. Ending on One Step At A Time, a solo vocal kicks off one other catchy tune that might have come off a mid 70s version of High of The Pops. It finishes the album on a hopeful thought, that we will obtain love and freedom. As they sang on their debut album, freedom peace and unity is what it’s all about. The CD and obtain additionally embrace 3 bonus tracks.
Whereas there are a selection of kinds at play right here, Hugh’s singing maintains an identification all through. Emma and Rav (substitute for bass participant Daryl who handed away in 2024 and is remembered on the lyric booklet) gel nicely as a rhythm part.
That is Energy Pop with out query. I most likely wouldn’t use the time period punk rock to explain this album to a stranger. In the event you put aside Omega Tribe’s historical past you wouldn’t name it punk rock. The drive and punch that makes punk completely different from pop or rock isn’t there for essentially the most half. With out getting right into a round argument about “What’s punk?”, sure, the DIY/impartial label strategy and a few of the lyrical content material makes this file “punk” however there’s loads of protest music that doesn’t name itself punk. You don’t should be “punk” to be legitimate. It is a very well written pop file with some essential messages.
If energy pop is your factor that is going to be a breath of contemporary air. In the event you’re a punk rocker searching for respite from shouty, indignant noise then this could possibly be the contender. It is a nicely crafted pop album of protest songs and love songs. The world exterior of punk wants to listen to Omega Tribe, they deserve mainstream radio air time. It might be nice if non-punk audiences obtained to listen to these Energy Pop Protest Songs – particularly Anti-Authorities Forces (which may sneak into Radio 2 schedules) and Important Employees (a winner for Radio 6, absolutely). Maybe that’s the right way to impact change by means of track, however then possibly that’s why messages like these are typically stored off the mainstream media.
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