Omer Netzer’s Nashville debut EP “Omer” arrives as a homecoming and a reckoning, though the home he finds isn’t tied to geography so much as lineage. Recorded at the storied Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals and guided by producer David “Messy” Mescon, the EP places Netzer’s gravel-warm voice and blues-country phrasing inside the same bloodstream once carried by Southern soul greats.
Born in Israel and shaped by everything from Johnny Cash to B.B. King to wartime resilience, he now stands firmly in the American tradition, but on his own terms with no imitation, no costume, just lived experience and open-heart delivery.
Take “Midnight Blue,” the breakout centerpiece. The song opens in a ghost-lit hush, with soft percussive shakes flutter, low drum pulses throb, and intimate guitar strums flickering like streetlamps on an empty road. Netzer’s voice enters heavy with memory, that sits in the bones, not the mind. When the chorus crests, his tone turns rough, gnawed at the edges, as if dragged across gravel. The music swells, drums rumble deeper, and the lyric “my sun set when I lost you, now every night feels like midnight blue” lands with the weight of something you don’t shake. A Hammond organ appears mid-song like a cathedral door swinging open, offering momentary breath before the final surge crashes back louder, rawer, and more resigned.
Then “Low High” flips the mood as it comes pulsing. The drums burst in, sparking energy and movement. Netzer sings with a weathered smugness, tracing the push-and-pull of a relationship that burns hot, burns messy, and burns real. “I go low, you go high” becomes the confession and the anthem of the relationship as the track moves like two lovers pacing circles around each other.
The EP suggests an artist arriving surefooted, not as a visitor to country music but as someone who belongs in the room, because he earned the room. Check it out on Spotify.
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Review by: Naomi Joan