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Call the fire brigade!, call the army!, someone save me please! They are bombarding us again! Super Impact Nuke: SIN! On the way to perdition... After a weird rumor, not more strange than these guys, that Mona and Andy had died in a plane crash, they decided, and we should thank them for making this, to write a 5 tracks EP, to prove they are still sort of alive… And yeah, Ladies and Gentlemen, they are still alive, and on their best way! The CD opens with So Sad, a dark and mysterious track, where the weird and melodic vocals perfectly fill the blanks of a superb and hypnotic instrumentation – yes, on Sin's best style. The hypnotic atmosphere continues on The Raven, creating a texture that intensively spreads around the ambient. There's no place to hide from it anymore… When Der Rosmarien Baum fades in, you are already on trance. This 3rd track sounds to me as a folk song, like some of those children melodies, going along with an awesome work on beats. The next one is The Game of Despise, developing the previous surrounding to reach an environment influenced by the upbeat. No, it’s not upbeat indeed, just the influence bares reference to. Actually it’s a lounge track, with a damn agreeable ambient. The last one is a remix of The Raven, directed to a chiller point of view. Another thing that got to be considered is the art-cover. Sin has always designed the coolest covers and packages – great pictures, lots of details, all those mini-flyers inside… All that, the greater music and the awesome visual side, makes Sin's CDs damn essential. And "So Sad" did not deny that tradition: it's a necessary title on every trip-hopper's collection. "She painted stars on the wall / and had the sky / within the reach of her hands." That is a free-style translation from a poetry of Helena Kolody (a poet from here). I guess it's perfect to describe Sin. I would not say they are music, a least not just that… They are a way beyond it. Sin is a concrete poetry, it's the beauty's alter-ego... And don't be afraid to say they are weird. They are and no one else knows how to extract all the bright from the strangeness the way Sin does. They indefatigably settle new paradigms, new ways to face the music, the world. If you ask me how will trip-hop sound like in the future, I'll answer you: it'll sound sinny. Yes, they are vanguard and they know exactly what it means. Before anything, this is a world of sinners. And if this is the punishment that sinners receive, I’ll be one forever… (but relax..., all sins will be forgiven...)
EP: So Sad artist: Sin year: 2003 label: Abuse Industries review by tripofagia september 2003 |