Omni Are “Sincerely Yours” on First Single from Their Sub Pop Debut Networker
Photo by Emily Frobos
After signing to Sub Pop in April, Atlanta post-punk outfit Omni have announced their debut album on the renowned, Seattle-based label: Networker, cleverly titled by a band moving up in the world, arrives Nov. 1, but you can get acquainted with its first single (and opening number) “Sincerely Yours” now.
Omni’s new single is a fitting introduction to Philip Frobos (bass/vocals) and Frankie Broyles’ (guitars/drums/keys) signature sound, with casually detached vocals draped over instrumentation you’d come away bloody if you touched. Frobos calls bullshit on everyone faking okay in the face of day-to-day alienation and anxiety, murmuring over a squeaky-clean mix of jagged shards of guitar and drums that land like an office drone death march. “Striving for self-worth / every morning,” Frobos muses, as if from a great distance. “At happy hours we talk and talk / Are you nervous for your career? / Are you insincere?”
“The last couple of years marked a lot of friends making the 9 to 5 career change,” Frobos says of the song in a statement. “While I’m aware that there are many advantages to that lifestyle, the song is written from an outsider’s perspective while remaining close to their struggles.”
Omni wrote Networker’s 11 songs between tours and four studio sessions, with their live show and approach to songwriting each informing the other. The band recorded the LP—their third, following 2016’s Deluxe and 2017’s Multi-task—in a cabin in Vienna, Ga., backed by their longtime collaborator Nathaniel Higgins. They finished the album in April, announcing their signing to Sub Pop and releasing two new songs for the Sub Pop Singles Club series, “Delicacy” and “I Don’t Dance,” neither of which appear on their forthcoming record.
Frobos and Broyles have set a 26-date world tour for the fall in support of Networker, beginning in Nashville on Oct. 23 and ending their North American leg with a hometown Atlanta show on Nov. 4 before hopping across the pond for an 18-date run through Europe and the U.K.
Listen to “Sincerely Yours” and sneak a peek at the Networker tracklist and album art below. You’ll find Omni’s full tour itinerary further down.
