Omar Doom – Afterlife

Electronic dark wave with a ray of hope

With ‘Afterlife’, Omar Doom has once again delivered an abso­lute crack­er. The track gets off to a won­der­fully sombre start, car­ried by Omar’s dark vocals, which con­jure up an intensely gloomy atmo­sphere. But at exactly 0:28, this dark­ness sud­denly dis­sip­ates in the chor­us: the song lit­er­ally begins to shine, bridging the gap between oppress­ive dark wave and mel­an­chol­ic synth pop, car­ry­ing a palp­able glim­mer of hope.

The chor­us itself is fant­ast­ic­ally catchy and had me com­pletely hooked from the very first second. Sonically, Omar adds bril­liant touches, in par­tic­u­lar, the squeak­ing, chirp­ing sound in the trans­ition from the first chor­us to the second verse sticks in your mind straight away. The bridge in the middle is also some­thing spe­cial. It skil­fully builds the ten­sion once more and brings a wel­come change of sound into play.

Visually, the music video takes it up a notch. Strikingly chosen imagery, mag­ni­fi­cent cos­tumes and deep red light­ing set the song off per­fectly. Omar’s per­form­ance is simply out­stand­ing. It’s incred­ibly fun to watch him cel­eb­rate the lyr­ics and beat with spot-on facial expressions.

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