System Syn – Kill The Light (Album – System Syn)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Pop, Industrial-Pop, Future-Pop.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: This must be the fifteenth album by American project System Syn. Driven by Clint Carney the band released several successful releases. This self-released work features ten new songs.
Content: System Syn must be like the American answer to European Electro/Future-Pop formations but the album sounds darker and Imore Industrial. It creates an evil sound polished by carrying choruses.
+ + + : I like the powerful and dark approach of the work which makes me think to an ‘Industrial version of De/Vision and Wolfsheim’. The songs are well-crafted and filled with tiny melancholic doses. I’m not saying System Syn reinvented its sound but there’s a noticeable evolution in the band’s discography. It became somewhat atypical-Pop like and yet very accessible for Electro-Pop lovers. I especially recommend listening to “The Light Was A Lie” which sounds like a sublime and powerful song.
– – – : You’ll also notice a very few happy-sounding passages and other sweet elements in the production which I’ve to confess aren’t my favorites.
Conclusion: System Syn don’t follow the Electro-Pop standards and has clearly established its very own interpretation of the genre. That’s what I like in this album.
Best songs: “The Light Was A Lie”, “Kill The Light”, “Ashes In The Wind”.
Rate: 7½.
Artist: www.systemsyn.com / www.facebook.com/SYSTEMSYNmusic
Listen to “Kill The Light”:
About System Syn
System Syn is the American electro-industrial and futurepop project founded in 1997 in Los Angeles by Clint Carney, alongside Adam Vex and Jon Siren. Its discography includes “Once Upon A Second Act” in 2020. “Kill The Light” continues System Syn’s self-released run of albums.
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