Ohmns

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Ohmns is from Liverpool, UK, and has been playing some furious garagish punk since 2014.

They have toured with bands like The Black Lips and The Gories but their sound has evolved quite a lot over the past few years, taking them slowly out of the garage circle...

The Rice Tape is the band first release (2016): 5 tracks of really enjoyable garage punk.

We are between the Voodoo Rhythm catalogue, some more "mainstream" garage influences like the Black Lips and faster rock'n punk bands like The Bottomfeeders.

Oh and these guys are of course big fans of The Stooges (who isn't?) as Keshi Heads long break clearly states.

Except for the beginning of Boil D Rice that I really find non necessary, it's a classic but nice first release for a band which has still a lot to offer.

Ohmns releases its first EP in 2018 on Sentinel Records (run by a guy from Clinic) and the atmosphere is quite different from the tape.

With 3 songs between 4:45 and 6 min, things are getting longer and the brits are clouding the issue.

It starts quite punk, it goes through some rock and grunge breaks before diving again in a garage punk pool. It took me a while to really dig it, but these Nirvana influenced parts (Love Buzz!), these obsessive rhythm and surprising explosions of energy finally seduced me.

I don't really know where we are with this EP, maybe around Seattle in 1988? Maybe on a sped up Nuggets compilations? But who cares? We're Ohmns!

And here is III, the latest (and best in my opinion) release of the band.

Available for free as a digital release, it is also now available as a very limited tape edition.

Another change of style here, the sound is more direct, less low-fi or grungy, it's fast, it's full of energy, it's punk and it's great! It stops, it explodes, it comes back, Ohmns sure knows how to play catchy songs!... and a lot of gang vocals this time!

It makes me think of less tough version of the Wilfull Boys.

I just love it!

Only two songs are available on bandcamp (4 on the tape) out of a 7 songs recording session which was supposed to give birth a new EP (short LP?) this year... I don't know what happened but it looks like it's postponed for now... I am really looking forward to listen to the lot though!

N,J'Oi!

You can listen to Ohmns on Rien à Faire #13

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