Australasia – Sin4tr4 (2013)

Being huge fans of Post-Rock and Post-Metal, we were pretty psyched about this release after doing our research on the band. Needless to say, this release is one of those albums that feels extremely repetitive and after a while gets on your nerves. We do not doubt the band’s abilities or flow of ideas, but the songs in this release get very repetitive and dull after 15 minutes.

The album open with “Antenna”, a very dreamy Post-Rock piece that is quite good and engaging, the only issue is that all the remaining songs sound the same. The Black Metal-esque riffing is quite effective and promising, but was used more as a gimmick than actually part of the band’s sound. With “Spine” and “Apnea” we start getting quite sleepy since there are not many different things except for some cool keyboards and atmospheric elements, but not enough to really help discern the songs.

Probably the best of the remaining songs is that they are quite short so they feel like listening to a bunch of movie trailers before a movie at the cinema. Except that all the trailers are re-edits of the first trailer for the same movie, this is the overall feel we got from “Sin4tr4”. At the end, no matter how many times we listened to this thing, we couldn’t really find a reason to enjoy it. So be warned and purchase with caution, if you like all your songs to be almost the same, then get a copy, if you expect more depth, look somewhere else.

Label: Hypnotic Dirge Records

Release: May 10th, 2013 (Digital Only)

Genre: Post-Rock / Post-Metal

Country: Italy