Sine Star Project – Building Humans

• 9th Mar 2008

Peter J croissant is certainly a man with a definitive and gigantic imagination, and considering Sine Star Project have used over 35 guest musicians to create this manifesto, he is thoroughly capable of foreseeing the project at hand.

A grand scheme forged on a grand scale.‘Building Humans’ is as diverse as it is comparable. Never have I heard an album so distinctly different yet contain so much content found in various movements and genres. A haberdashery of rock jazz eclectica and classical.A vocal and lyrical likeness to Radiohead can be traced almost instantly and within key moments throughout the album, though there are times especially during ‘Eternal sadness for man’ when an emotive Croissant is more familiar to Queens Freddy Mercury. Who once again passes over into a more alternative element, a moving and almost saddening aura contained within the parody of ‘Chinese drag queen’.

Sensing a love of classical amidst the rock influences, maybe due to the vocal abilities of the frontman and musical talents of all involved, a trained voice capable of terrific definition and dynamics, moving above and below his usual range, they seem to be building an orchestra as much as building humans. Nothing here is, as it seems, be prepared to only truly discover this album as you play it, carefully and cautiously as if opening a present from a crazed stalker.

The mellowing strains of ‘The Temptress’ attempt to settle you before ‘Posthuman’ is freakishly, unsettling, in the same way that the vocals of System of a downs Serj unnerves. A uniqueness that cannot be denied although its somewhat similar to being tickled to death, you love it but your not sure why. ‘Christmas carol for the dead’ began to sway my enthusiasm until about two thirds of the way through when it emerged into something very beautiful and with another more careful listen it gave quite a chill.

Off the wall, deceptive and compelling in every way, Sine Star Project are coming, albeit doing hand stands.