Jake Schrock - Omnibus

June 26, 2020 - Medical Records

Beautiful. Just pretty. Just lovely. Just makes us feel such feelings of goodness. Like nothing is wrong, everything is right. Swimming in endorphins. Swimming in an ocean of contentment and comfort. Wrapped in a cocoon of the really reliable stuff that can hold our bleeding wounds together so they can heal a little for once. Like a sunset so satisfying.

If you are looking for a dose of past-future optimism to escape to right now, look no further than the expansive synthetic dream world that Dallas-based Jake Schrock has meticulously crafted in his new album Omnibus (MR-085). It’s baths of vintage synths as the soundtrack to your life if you were living a Molly Ringwold movie or an old NOVA special. Schrock doesn’t shy away from the specific aesthetic of his medium but leans in instead to see what else can be done in that space we all think we know so well. The effect leaves you questioning what you think the 80s were and what you think the Now is and how relative space-time works. 

There was a time when AI was seen as a good thing that would make the world better for humankind, as long as humankind was also kind to the AI it created. Science and technological development were once ideologies to believe in, before they became another megaphone for the corporations to make our choices for us and sell us an illusion that we have the choice in the first place. Maybe we can travel forward through time back to this reality somehow. Maybe Jake Schrock is our prophet guide, marrying man with the machine as a reminder of what now might become if we just listen. ☔