Omnium Gatherum - The Redshift
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As Racer and I have mentioned in numerous posts and podcasts, there has been an incredible output of music from Sweden and, to a bit of a lesser degree, Norway. Up to now, very little has been said about their Scandinavian neighbor, Finland. Not that there isn't a massive music scene going there, it's just that we haven't been able to get away from the magnetic pull of these two countries to inspect it further. Attention all Finlandians, send us your huddled masses! We need to hear more of your music!
What has inspired this call to the masses is a band called Omnium Gatherum. During my first spin of their latest album, The Red Shift, I thought to myself, 'Self . . . this is one of those Gothenburg bands from Sweden doing what those Gothenburg bands do.' Ah contraire, Omnium Gatherum do have those moments, but I found on deeper inspection that the melodies were so much more endearing than those of the Gothenburg crowd. These are the types of melodies that stick with you like tree sap at Christmas. Though I'm not going to go as far as to say this is a completely unique album or a different take on the genre, I am willing to say that The Red Shift is an album that has pulled on my heart strings in ways that In Flames and Dark Tranquility never have.
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