Pierre Omer’s career is riddled with antiquated sounds ranging from macabre Eastern European folk to crooning Southern electric blues, and this comes from a man nestled in the border city of Geneva, far away from the Carpathians or the Mississippi delta. Swing-infused gypsy jazz is another style he caters to, and his own Quatuor du Hot Club de Suisse, Pierre Omer’s Swing Revue, returns with a new album, Tropical Breakdown, via their long-time outsider home, Voodoo Rhythm Records. Tropical Breakdown follows up their 2016 debut, Swing Cremona. The record continues in their modern take of an older noir-swing-jazz-trash style that resonates with underground audiences romanticizing the Roaring Twenties aesthetic and the garage punks. Omer’s name is already known within the European underground ...