Omni - Courtesy Call

What this video is

Released October 8, 2019 as the third single from Omni's Sub Pop debut Networker (out November 1, 2019), 'Courtesy Call' arrives at a moment when post-punk revivalism was experiencing a sustained critical resurgence in American indie. The Atlanta duo of Frankie Broyles and Philip Frobos channel a lineage running through Gang of Four, Television, and Josef K, while the video's retro-broadcast concept — built around…

Why it matters

A textbook artifact of the late-2010s American post-punk revival, 'Courtesy Call' demonstrates how a new generation of acts metabolized 1970s-80s post-punk influences (Gang of Four, Television, Talking Heads) into a contemporary DIY framework. The video's VHS-simulation aesthetic — executed with…

The director

Frankie Broyles is a co-founder, guitarist, and multi-instrumentalist of Atlanta-based post-punk duo Omni, active since 2015 across four studio albums on Trouble in Mind and Sub Pop Records. He co-directed this video as an extension of the band's hands-on…