Remina releases its second album.
Entitled The Silver Sea, it is released by Avantgarde Music and took just over a year to Mike Lamb (guitar/bass/keyboards, Light Field Reverie, Lord of Shadows, Sojourner), Heike Langhans (vocals/keyboards, Light Field Reverie, Sojourner, :LOR3L3I:, ex-Draconian) and Shayne Roos (drums, Light Field Reverie, ex-Abstract Survival) to be complete.
We begin with Trust No One’s dark melancholy, which captivates us before becoming noticeably heavier, then letting Heike‘s voice partially free us from this dissonant shadow, before finally rejoining her on choruses. The melodies allow us to drift between the tumultuous parts until Algol takes over, letting the vocalist share the mic with Mick Moss (Antimatter, Sleeping Pulse), the two voices blending with rare perfection over the raw riffs. Each brings their own touch between Gothic and Post-Rock with a striking climax, then Tony Dunn (Sgàile, Cnoc an Tursa) joins the trio to create a lighter and more accessible atmosphere, but one that doesn’t hesitate to get caught up in a unifying intensity on the choruses. The band follows up with Theia, which gives us a moment of respite with ethereal sounds that suddenly burst into flame while maintaining a soothing distance that allows it to transform five minutes into a fraction of a second before leading into House of Suns. The keyboards are immediately heavier, as is the rhythm section in the background, and although the song itself is quite soft, its atmosphere is very different, more raw and cold than the other songs, even rubbing off on Io, which is quite mysterious, as if under a veil. The post-punk influences eventually emerge, then adopt the long-awaited saturation in the final moments, finally joining the last track, Silence and the Silver Sea, which begins very slowly and navigates very naturally between the various saturated passages, moving from soaring keyboards to massive guitars led by Heike‘s soft voice, until silence.
Although fairly quiet between releases, Remina regularly offers up a dreamy, majestic, and above all intoxicating sound. The Silver Sea is the perfect companion for daydreaming, and will naturally be on repeat for fans of Doom Metal.
90/100
