Album Review: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez - Blind Worms, Pious Swine

Blind Worms, Pious Swine mixes contemporary influences with progressive playing in an experiment to discover how genres blend.

Atlantis Is Rising mixes percussion, guitar and atmospheric synths to conclude on a wonky alt-funk breakdown and Lights is an Omar-ified Ellie Goulding cover, reinvigorating the original. Tunnel Riot is a futuristic pop ditty, whose uses of keys leads into serenading vocals on Savage Letters. Mariposa is a beautifully captivating duet featuring Teresa Suarez of Les Butcherettes. The final four songs develop a single bass-driven idea to create repetition and improv-based madness.