OmG!!!

The other week French duo OmR's second record Superheroes Crash dropped through my letterbox. And I thought, hallelujah, I love getting free things in the post. It's really satisfying.

Much like the record itself. It's very French; sensual, knowing, vaguely profound in a slightly incomprehensible way and wears a polo-neck jumper. A black polo-neck jumper. You get a good idea of what they sound like from the album cover, bizarrely enough. From their bio:

Formed by Virginie Krupa and Alexandre Bravelli, OMR is a perfect duo: two souls that blend their strengths and doubts, their blinding brightness and their anguish in a single body in this music, conceived in perfectly equal proportion by both of them. Absolute artistic harmony: of those magical, inexplicable unions that come into being between heads that are on the same minute waves, connected to the same spiritual spheres.

I don't know about magical, inexplicable unions, but I really like Superheroes Crash. It's all a bit electronicy and poppy, definitely a lot of influence from Air, especially on the title track; but this is Air as you'd imagine them with a cracking sultry female singer doing all the vocals instead of just some of the time. Plus, there's also an element of This is Hardcore era Pulp, which gives the record a fantastic seedy element, which is a nice balance to the poppier element of the record.

OmR - Captive in the Height of Summer


And also from a while back, we were part of Bel Auburn's ATTAK on all the BLOGZ to promote their record, Lullabys in A & C, which you've no doubt read about elsewhere. I wasn't going to pay it much attention, but it's a beautifully low-key record; kind of a more louche Eyes Open flavour Snow Patrol, but I suspect that they've got their eyes on the lighter waving crowd. I'm not going to post a link to a song, since you can download Lullabys in A & C direct from their website. It's an attractive record, if a slow-burner; but there's some great tunesmithery going on there.