February 2012
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December 2011
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The Varsity - S/T 12" →
Omma Cobba’s self-titled debut is so blurry and hazy you can barely read the track listing on the back cover. Working between the vague boundaries of blues, folk, and early rock, the Halifax-born Toronto-based band claims to have recorded most of its album in an RV while travelling across Europe. True or not, the reverb-drenched production and trails of echoing vocals do effortlessly evoke...
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Weird Canada - S/T 12" →
Feel the coarse, desert grain fade as the scarubs march fringeward to the beat of Omma Cobba. Slurs of popular bass emanate from the fringes of oases while the vacant desert melts away to Cobba’s burning morning chrome; a hazy trip through opium dens of merino acid and cashmere horses. Welcome the new dawn with dusted lungs and eyes brimming with theta waves. 12″s of polyvinyl glory ripe...
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Boston Hassle - S/T 12" →
60s jangle swirl meets modern haze pop from our neighbors in Halifax, NS. OMMA COBBA features former members of the wholly psychedelic OMON RA. This is groovy jangling psych pop, well worn territory, but there is nothing not to like here from these Canadians. Their latest record is s/t and it’s out now on SWEET ROT. “Didn’t I Miss It All Baby” is the standout track from those available on...
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Still Single - S/T 12" →
Nova Scotian dude (from an earlier band called Omon Ra, which I’m sure I’ve seen mentioned somewhere) hits the stoned wave with a hazy, reverberating hippie folk-pop sound in the Sic Alps/Brightblack Morning Light mode of shambling, slurred guitar slack and obfuscated sentiments. My eyes rolled pretty hard when the needle dropped on this debut full-length, but truth be told, it’s a good...
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The Varsity - Policeman cassette →
There’s more to a perfect pop song than first catches the ears. You can’t undervalue writing a great chorus, but weird, subtle details are important too. So when the Beatles and Rolling Stones were sending out hits for the masses they were also digesting Indian ragas and experimenting with modular synthesizers. There’s a similar dynamic at play in the music of...
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Raven Sings The Blues - Policeman Cassette →
A few months ago we did a write up on a great little Canadian band called Omon Ra II and despite harnessing a gritty guitar fury the likes of which we hadn’t heard in a while, the band decided to go their separate ways. Just a few weeks ago we highlighted Lantern, the project that guitarist Zachary Fairbrother, and now the remaining half of Omon Ra II has regrouped as Omma Cobba. ...
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Los Grillos Collective - Policeman Cassette →
A big thanks to the fine folks at Raven Sings The Blues for turning los grillos on to ragged Canadian rockers Omma Cobba. Daniel Miller, one half of the now-defunct Omon Ra, formed Omma Cobba from the ashes of that band’s slow-burning psychedelics (his musical counterpart and fellow “cosmorganism,” Zachary Fairbrother, carried on as Omon Ra II and then formed Lantern). The result is a little...
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Weird Canada - Policeman cassette →
It’s been a year since I received a humble e-mail from OmmaCobba containing a soft-focus view into the paranormal meanderings of an ex-OmonRa marijuana ensemble. Finally, languishing within my grip is a cassingle dripping in organ-driven low-end and dazzling rhythm. With a lysergic drawl that engulfs a fantastic journey through trans-planar mellow, OmmaCobba tweak you into a new wavelength...
