Incirrina release new album ‘Trace’ on Cold Transmission Music
Athens duo Incirrina release the album “Trace” on Cold Transmission Music. The 11-track record was written 2023–2025 across coldwave and minimal synth.
Incirrina (Photo by G. Galanopoulou)
Athens duo Incirrina have released the album “Trace” on the German label Cold Transmission Music. The Incirrina “Trace” album runs to 11 tracks and follows the duo’s two previous albums, “8.15” (2019) and “Lip Led Scream” (2022).
The band describe “Trace” as built around freedom, identity and resistance. The 11 tracks were written between 2023 and 2025 and recorded through a 24-channel console, using analogue electronic instruments and the duo’s vocals. The album follows “Lip Led Scream” (2022), the duo’s first record for Cold Transmission Music.
“Trace” is issued on vinyl (black and crystal-clear), CD, a limited cassette and digital. “Mutate” and “Always Here” were released as advance singles, and “Mutate” has an accompanying video on YouTube. The album is available through Cold Transmission Music (coldtransmission.com) and the band’s Bandcamp.
About Incirrina
Incirrina is a dark electronic and minimal synth duo based in Athens, Greece, formed in late 2017 by George Katsanos (synthesizers, drum machine, waterphone, vocals) and Irini Tiniakou (synthesizers, vocals). The duo describe their work as “dark, poetic, electronic,” pairing analogue synth lines and drum-machine rhythms with Tiniakou’s vocals. Tiniakou first appeared as a guest vocalist on a release by the Greek act Metal Disco before Incirrina became a project in its own right.
The duo debuted with the album “8.15” (2019, Geheimnis Records), a record drawing on the work of the 18th-century poet William Blake. They followed it with the digital maxi-single “Utter” (2020) and a 2021 split maxi-single with The Man & His Failures, “Devastations / R.Daneel,” on Smash Records. Their second album, “Lip Led Scream” (2022), was their first release for Germany’s Cold Transmission Music, which has handled their releases since. In 2024 they released the double single “Immersion” (“Presence” and “Alien Room”), also on Cold Transmission Music.
In an April 2023 Side-Line reviewer Inferno Sound Diaries described “Lip Led Scream” as “a pure Cold-Wave production which is sometimes reinforced with harder, EBM, elements” and as “a well-crafted and fully enjoyable work without any single cut to throw away,” rating it 8/10.
The duo have performed in Greece, Germany, Belgium, Hungary and Croatia, with festival appearances at Plíísken Festival, Morphic Festival, Cold Transmission Festival. Death Disco Festival – The Warm Up, Athens Music Week, Metavasis Festival and the Athens Digital Arts Festival.
“Trace,” their third album, is their latest release for Cold Transmission Music.
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