SINA MATIX - Cursed

Review by Chris Magdalenski

I just got the news

You’re in the place I feared

Pushing the words away

That I don’t want to hear

Emotions, Raw and Red.

It’s those foreboding words, accompanied by bouncing synth stabs and adrenaline fueled drum and bass lines that open Sina Matix’s latest release Cursed. Titled “Where Did It Go Wrong”, the first track serves as a signpost, a warning that we are about to embark on a very personal dark electro journey.

Themes of loss, loneliness and despair are on full display throughout the work. Each track offers a richly dramatic soundscape drenched in an unsettled dread. While some tracks utilize forlorn vocals, executed with a soulful listlessness, others forgo those, relying instead on menacing samples of lines from film and television. 

It’s a highly effective technique, further giving the album a darkly unique feel, one that alternates between seething rage and spiraling depression at the drop of a hat. I could feel the raw emotions Sina Matix poured into every track. A true work of an artist grappling with the demons of choices both made and not made. Like all good art, I saw bits of my own existence in Cursed, and I highly recommend giving it a listen yourself.

For more SINA MATIX, visit https://sinamatix.bandcamp.com