Holiday Staff Picks

By Rick Shithouse for Synthetix.fm

"There's been some totally rockin releases over the last month and it pains me that we don't have the time to really cover some of these records in more depth but the releases keep coming and I didn't want the site to be bogged down catching up on things at the start of the year. It was also good to go back and look at what really stood out, for me personally, over the holiday period."

"...First up is D.Notive with his very impressive Sentinel album. D.Notive has really crafted his own universe in this album, check out the trailer below for some idea of the effort he's gone to to make a cohesive dimension for his music to exist" in.

"The diversity in the music itself though is what stands out on this record. There's a great deal of homage to other staples of the 80s inspired synth scene but the way D.Notive shifts into vastly different gears from track to track is what impressed me a great deal. Whether he's rockin some intense darker grooves or crooning his heart out in a more pop chart oriented direction or even taking things back to smooth instrumentals D.Notive's music is all bound by an energy that is completely entrancing. The massive amount of divergent sounds on Sentinel make it a spectacular album experience and one that definitely stands out as genuinely passionate and accomplished release."

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