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Omar S Thanks For Letting Me Be Myself Rar Full Advantage OfFew working today have garnered as much trust to do whatever they so please, and Alex Smith takes full advantage of this, letting music trickle from his FXHE imprint as he sees fit. But given his thorny persona and the absolute torrid clip at which hes been releasing music the past few years, his perma-against-the-wall attitude is readily palpable. You can only copy a song that has already been produced by Omar-S. But if this paranoia, this self-constructed defense mechanism, is the reason we end up with work like Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself, then by all means. This alone ranks the album high amongst the most fully definitive statements of his career. Theres plenty semblance of trademark Omar-S most notably the tireless attention paid to deftly syncopated drum programming but its real definition is granted through breadth. Never afraid to test a variety of genre waters, he fully submerges himself in certain pockets on Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself, nestling next to contemporary geniuses currently owning their particular realm and proving his keep. Most impressive is how much it sounds entirely of the moment while remaining a distinctly Omar-S affair. Air Of The Day, for example, sees Omar testing the momentum-dictated melee of New York heads like Jus-Ed and Levon Vincent. And theres more than a couple instances resembling the cobwebby textures being so prevalently plied by the world-beating L.I.E.S. Hellter Shelter, in particular, burbles ever so skeptically around a loose-limbed assemblage of patter, and Messier Sixty Eight lives up to its title, working a hi-hat and wood block smattering around a forever-plunging lurch. Not surprisingly given the attached mixed by Luke Hess credit, I Just Want is the most techno thing here, forging down a pitch-black corridor and reaching the end with a few bumps and bruises as a result of jostling into the walls. Its what makes his classics his classics; that ability to effortlessly alleviate a room from the dregs via unflinchingly delicate beauty, wringing ethos from a dance track in a manner that so few are capable. The initial drum riff on Its Money In The D implodes and it seems destined to fall in line with the surrounding grit. But a daybreak synth run rests ever so gently on top, birthing a warm, welcoming sensory shock. Its these contradictions that have come to define Omar-S: abrasive yet seductive, free-thinking yet indebted to his surroundings, all on his own time. If we want to attach some semblance of great meaning to the albums title, like many did with It Can Be Done But Only I Can Do It, then I say, the pleasure is all ours. Omar-S, Its Money In The D FXHE Records (buy)Staff ChartsPer Bojsen-Moller 01.
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