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Songs We Love: Omni, 'Equestrian'

The Atlanta trio's first single from Multi-task is built around twitchy, start-stop beats that instantly get pulses rushing and nerves tingling.
Omni's <em>Multi-task</em> comes out Sept. 22.

If Atlanta's Omni were a machine with a rhythm switch, it would probably just have one setting: staccato. Nearly all of the trio's songs are built around twitchy, start-stop due in September on Chicago's Trouble in Mind, guitarist Frankie Broyles (formerly of ) and singer and bassist Philip Frobos give almost every one of their musical moves — be it a sharp guitar chord, a pointy bass pluck or a bulleted snare hit — its own rhythmic exclamation point.

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