Sine – Manthis 2 (EP – Emergency Hearts)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro.
Format: Digital.
Background/Info: Sine is an American project driven by female artist Rona Rougeheart. “Manthis 2” is the artist’s newest EP featuring five cuts.
Content: The songs are touched by minimalism. It’s an Electronic composition empowered by few guitar parts and sensual, female, vocals on top. The last cut sounds more Cinematic.
+ + + : I like the minimalism of Sine, which is mainly emerging at the debut cut. “Virtual Realitease” is a great opener, which reminds me a bit of Depeche Mode with dark and menacing sound treatments and great effects on the vocals. I also like the Industrial touch hanging over the songs.
– – – : I can’t find a potential hit among the tracklist.
Conclusion: Minimalism isn’t always the most accessible format for Electronic music, but there’s a potential hiding behind this project.
Best songs: “Virtual Realitease”, “Jetset”.
Rate: 6½.
Artist: www.sine.band / www.facebook.com/RonaRougeheart1
Label: www.emergencyhearts.com / www.facebook.com/emergencyhearts
About Sine
Sine is the Austin, Texas based solo project of Rona Rougeheart, released through the Austin label eMERGENCY heARTS. “Mantis 2” is the second entry in a planned trilogy following “Mantis 1”, produced by Rougeheart with audio engineer Charles Godfrey at Scary American Studio in Austin. The EP includes a cover of The Glove’s “Sex-Eye-Make Up”, recorded with producer Mark Pistel of Consolidated and Meat Beat Manifesto. Sine later released the albums “Desire, Denial and Paramania” (2021, featuring Curse Mackey, Sean Beavan and Chris Connelly) and “Luxuria” (2024, produced by Claus Larsen), and has since signed to Metropolis Records.
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