Debut outing from Melbourne's Synergy Trilogy, a goth-coded experimental minimal wave duo that very much feel a child of the currently hyper-productive experimental Australian underground. Flitting between mordant spoken word elegies, dreampop lullabies and post-industrial pop, there's a very convincing poise to their application that shows great command of aesthetics. You've the impression they've paid close attention to the greyscale romance of Carla dal Forno, and as a whole, the Blackest Ever Black universe that first platformed her, that shows they're astute students of the game at the very least. More impressive is how authentic the entire presentation sounds, as comfortable positioned alongside progenitors like Strawberry Switchblade or Ceramic Hello as they are current contemporaries ala Tristwich Y Fenywod, Troth or Prophetic Justice Ministry. There's also something strangely eternal to this kind of music, a genre that seems to endure and be reborn with each generation, something endlessly appealing existent in such dream-laced, ostensibly romantic song. Synergy Trilogy seem well aware of that lineage and they bear the torch admirably.
FFO: Carla Dal Forno, Strawberry Switchblade, Tropic of Cancer, Troth
