Tineidae – Mothership (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, Dark-Ambient.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/info: After two albums released on defunct label Tympanik Audio “Mothership” is the second opus of Tineidae released on Cryo Chamber. “Mothership” was released right before the war in Ukraine. That’s an important element as Pavlo Storonskyi is Ukrainian, but now living in Poland.
Content: Previous album “Exo” (2020) revealed a sonic transformation from early IDM inspired stuff into a Cinematic music. “Mothership” moves on this evolution revealing a new overwhelming sound production and Cinematic influences. The work reveals heavy, epic blasts, buzzing sound waves, analogue sound treatments and field recordings.
+ + + : Pavlo Storonskyi has accomplished a new tour de force. He created a devastating sound production wherein the analogue sound treatments are essential. The writing is sophisticated and even complex, but still features a true harmony. This is a work with a strong visual power and featuring multiple great cuts like “Behind The Seal”, the extremely dark “Ellipsis”, “Manufacturing Facility” and “Reactor”.
– – – : I can’t say there are minus parts running through this work although a very few cuts remain a bit flat.
Conclusion: I’ve always liked and supported the work of Tineidae and it’s not different with this new masterpiece. The album also has something symbolic in times of war and oppression.
Best songs: “Behind The Seal”, “Ellipsis”, “Manufacturing Facility”, “Reactor”, “Biolab”.
Rate: 8½.
Artist: www.facebook.com/71ne1dae
Label: www.cryochamberlabel.com / www.facebook.com/cryochamber
Cryo Chamber released “Mothership” on 1 February 2022, digitally and on CD. The eleven tracks are “Mothership Calls”, “Behind The Seal”, “Artificer’s Quarters”, “Commtower”, “Bridge”, “Biolab”, “Storage Sector”, “Reactor”, “Manufacturing Facility”, “Testing Grounds” and “Ellipsis”. Pavlo Storonskyi wrote, produced, performed and mastered the album, and Simon Heath supplied the artwork.
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About Tineidae
Tineidae is the project of Ukrainian musician Pavlo Storonskyi, who has been living in Poland. The project began in IDM and drum and bass, with “Lights” in 2012, “Random Signal Analysis” in 2013 and “Shadows” in 2014, the first two issued through Tympanik Audio.
Storonskyi described his approach to melody in the Click Interview with Tineidae in January 2021, a few weeks after Side-Line reviewed Tineidae – Exo, his first album for Cryo Chamber.
Later releases include the collaborative album “Simulation” with Drifting In Silence on Labile Records in 2022, “Remnants Of War” with Sole Massif on Cryo Chamber in 2024 and “Dead Chapters” on Artificers the same year. He returned to Side-Line for a second interview in February 2025.
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