OOBE - OOBE (2019) EN

OOBE function now as a trio - the producers duet of Wojciech Hass and Grzegorz Ciemciach-Pikselo together with the vocalist and lyricist Aleksandra Szalińska (known as FLicker Fox). Their debut album OOBE makes another one in the last months released by Trzy Szóstki records label, that made a great impression on me.

Already the first sounds announce the uniqueness of the project's music. The album's electronics are complex and yet extremely atmospheric which, together with Szalińsk'a vocal, results in some world class dark electro-pop Borusiade or Apparat style. But unlike those, OOBE's vocalist is not afraid of experimenting with her voice sounding usually somewhat like Karen Andersson, but sometimes (as in present (in)tense) going towards extremely high and beautiful levels.

Szalińska is not the only vocalist on the album. In more synthwave compositions (for example in we have no time to fascinate the crowd), the voice is provided by Magdalena Starska. And the whole music layer is haunted by the industrial spirit that gets even more present in the tracks where another guest, Rav Piekoszewski's guitar plays the main part.

OOBE costs whatever you want to pay.

Check: present (in)tense

Country: Poland

Genre: industrial synth pop

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