Take the after midnight, all night heartbeat of the dance club add flashing spotlight speed adrenaline and the pulse of hundreds of people moving to the sounds vibrating from the speakers and you’ll get the songs Sine has created on debut INSOMNIÆ. She’s amped up the soul of the dance floor to her specifications, pouring sexually, personality, and chemical abnormality into the lyrics and sounds of her music narrated by lustful fantasy.
Sine was founded by drummer and vocalist Rona Rougeheart with drummer Sonny Sanchez on live skins. INSOMNIÆ is now available featuring a guest appearance by Curse Mackey of Pigface and My Life With The Thrill Kill on the track, Drugs.
Sine was inspired by the dark shadows that spawned NIN and where Depeche Mode found Jesus. Its alternative electro-rock sparked with industrial dirge, some revving metal engines and an aggro-tech bite.
Rougeheart wanted a dark, stylish and sophisticated debut with edgy lyrics embracing the dark corners of life we walk. Learning from the rough times and personal lows encountered whether from negative emotions, destructive choices or situations.
INSOMNIÆ spreads soothing dark atmosphere like an arms outstretched embrace of incoming chemicals. Mood altering music enhanced by the ‘80s, new wave and electronica capture what happens behind the black shrouded back rooms, exposing hidden activities and carnal inhibitions.
The opening “Communion” lashes out like a retro leash, dance driven with dark lyrics and gnarly, guitars. A mechanical tune on hydraulics offering a taste of machine flavored human flesh. Harsh effects are escorted by the breath of synth keys pressed hard and pulled back like bodies disappearing in the woods. Grind house guitars string up dirty sounds and secrets like a backwoods trophy case.
“Need to Bleed” is a midnight dance floor special designed to get the juices flowing. A song needing spotlight and strobe attention with a spooky baby-doll style chorus. Like a courtship between NIN and One-Eyed Doll, vocals conjuring Kimberly Freeman’s playful nature and Trent’s darkness together in unison.
“Drugs” sounds futuristic, spewing out medicinal manipulation like designs in a sparkling, bubbling rainbow as little voices whisper temptation like never ending taunting demons. Atmospheric synth paints landscapes like little hills of inhaled lines.
“Blood Lush” has a vintage, retro feel. A heavy fatal attraction, with a voice like a subtle battery ram, made to crush emotions. The heavy breathing of “Temptation” gives off a sinister seduction, deceitful in expectation and deceptive, laced in sexy, peaceful, raspy words. Guitars slink, clanging along casting a spell with a dramatic cinematic feel.
“Feed the Vultures” has an alternative vibe with veins in punk, Babes in Toyland and Drain STH. A pound of flesh is needed to feed the flying parasites and ravenous appetites. “Maybe” ends in techno, industrial mold with a bit of aggro-fusion. It’s a finishing military boot stomp, smashing a smiling face with mechanized, computerized voices and effects, like the assembly line gone mad.
INSOMNIÆ has a bit of everything to entice and entrance listeners. You should be able to find your favorite tastes of domination, submission, poison or darkness within the experience.
