Multi-Task

It doesn’t quite have anything as immediately appealing as Afterlife here, in fact it’s much more of a grower, but over time Multi-task proves itself to be a triumphant lesson in post-punk authenticity.

While potentially a little abrasive at times, the writing and sense of fun make it more exciting the more you listen to it.

OMNI remains a band that’s best at its most berserk ... Multi-task hits its high marks when the band is doing as much as it can, or, if you will, multi-tasking.

Busy yet not overly complicated musicianship sets a suitable bedrock for stories concerned with everyday trials and tribulations, all overladen with an emphasised, yet extremely relatable, sense of stress and anxiety.

They sell their nervous energy not as affectation or aesthetic statement, but simply as a logical way of dealing with the world. That was true on their 2016 debut, Deluxe, but on Multi-task they’ve honed their sound to the point where it’s hard to imagine them playing anything that doesn’t take sharp turns or hit abrupt stops.

It’s an interesting experiment that loses a bit of strength in the long run. The eleven tracks of the album span just less than half an hour, but the feeling, after the initial punch, is that it’s consistency actually means things can bleed into a single sound.