Omnimar – Poison

Omnimar Poison

Album facts

Release: May 19th, 2017
Label: darkTunes Music Group
Genre: , , ,
Discogs: Link

Once upon a time

The Russian Synthpop band 'Omnimar' aroused a lot of atten­tion in the scene two years ago with their debut 'Start'. Musically, a fresh wind and the music videos visu­ally also provided a feast for the eyes.

In 2016, the band released a remix album of their debut entitled 'Restart', as well as an EP called 'Out Of My Life'. This made the thirst for the die-hard fans easi­er to bear.

Now it's finally here! 'Poison' is the second stu­dio album of 'Omnimar'. The title and the album art­work make them remin­is­cent of a clas­sic fairytale. But how is the second album? Is it just a bloated old magic potion or do we exper­i­ence a thrill­ing story full of surprises?

A prelude like from the picture book

With the open­er and title-giv­en 'Poison', the band 'Omnimar' has cre­ated one of the greatest intros I've heard in a long time. The begin­ning of the play sounds like a typ­ic­al 'Pet Shop Boys' song. Even the voice of Maria Mar is almost mod­u­lated to the same pitch of Neil Tennant. To the end, we are hov­er­ing in style towards the Ambience and Trance of the early 1990s.

Liquid passing over we hear the dance­floor smash­er 'I Go On On My Own'. This song dir­ectly moves your dan­cing legs. An abso­lutely great track with a catchy chor­us and great instru­ment­a­tion. Although the play has an extremely large Pop factor, it still has enough depth to become a hit in any Gothic disco.

From another world

The young, Russian band is a ton­ally vari­able, you can prove with the song 'Out Of My Life'. A track which is mainly driv­en by lyr­ic­al tragedy. The song presents itself in an Electrorock Opus that seeks its equal.

In sev­er­al acts, the track builds up breath­tak­ingly. Almost mys­tic­ally, 'Out Of My Life' offers everything an epic soundtrack needs to a gloomy fairy tale. Be it the occa­sion­al raven cries, wolf's howls or the great sound­ing strings. As men­tioned above, with sev­er­al remix ver­sions and a b‑side it's avail­able as an EP.

Omnimar Press Photo 2017
Omnimar (Press Photo 2017)

Welcome to the prom night

The song 'Boom Boom' offers the very big bass beat. Easily remin­is­cent of the Eurodance time, the up-tempo gren­ade calls for dan­cing. Here life is cel­eb­rated with hard elec­tron­ic beats and simple tex­tu­al phrases. A wel­come change on the album 'Poison'.

Full of musical twists

In the song '40 Steps', I was first vocally reminded of Shirley Manson of 'Garbage'. And I just thought, "Wow, this incred­ibly great vari­ation of Maria Mar's voice is really fas­cin­at­ing.". The mira­cu­lous mel­an­choly is again a fur­ther splash of col­or on the new long play­er 'Poison'.

'Jimmy' is a light-footed Synthpop song that could be settled in the middle of the 90s. However, the track is very com­plex, but doesn't sound over­charged. Here leads you 'Omninar' acous­tic­ally back on the path of good mood.

An old companion in a new guise

The song 'Sadizm' has already been released on the debut. Now 'Omnimar' present the las­ci­vi­ous num­ber in an English ver­sion, which I per­son­ally very appre­ci­ate. Genetically, the song has typ­ic­al ele­ments from the Futurepop genre, but is gen­er­ally much darker.

The pathetic part in the tale

'Happy Ending' sounds tech­nic­ally not really happy. This is an emo­tion­al bal­lad that draws you like a mael­strom into the depths. Sonically offer 'Omnimar' here prob­ably the most ser­i­ous song on the entire album. Only after the bridge the song picks up more speed, to cel­eb­rate the chor­us one last time.

In terms of con­tent I can't say much about the title 'Hungry'. Regardless, the song has an English title, the lyr­ics are com­plete in Russian. But even if I don't under­stand, it sounds like an excel­lent Synthpop song.

And they all lived happily even after

The second album is, as is known, the most dif­fi­cult album of a band. I leave the album with the feel­ing of hav­ing heard a awe­some and well thought-out work. It's rare that such a young band sounds fresh, very mature and var­ied like 'Omnimar'. The album 'Poison' has con­vinced us com­pletely and we strongly recom­mend by buy­ing the album to sup­port this band.

By the way, this album also made it into our art­icle ‘The best Synth Pop and genre-related albums 2017‘. Read now.

Track By Track Rating

Omnimar Poison
Omnimar – Poison
Poison
I Go On On My Own
Out Of My Life
I Wanna Know
Boom Boom
40 Steps
Jimmy
Sadizm (English Version)
Happy Ending
Hungry
Release Me
Recommend
I Go On On My Own
Out Of My Life
Sadizm (English Version)
Weak
(Nothing to report here)
3.8
Fabulous

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Poison
I Go On On My Own
Out Of My Life
I Wanna Know
Boom Boom
40 Steps
Jimmy
Sadizm (English Version)
Happy Ending
Hungry
Release Me
Final Score