Sepiatone creates a sound that feels like it was discovered on a reel-to-reel tape in a sun-bleached Mediterranean villa. It is music of high contrast: the warmth of 1960s European pop orchestration meets a cold, contemporary detachment. The interplay between Marta Collica’s hushed, 'indifferent' vocals and the psychedelic arrangements creates a sense of suspended animation, as if the listener is caught in the golden hour between memory and reality.
What truly distinguishes the project is its 'soulful minimalism.' Rather than cluttering the space, Collica and Hugo Race use silence and reverb as instruments. The piano playing often stumbles between delicate melodies and sudden, gritty distortion, mirroring the 'hallucinatory moodswings' described in their work. It is pop music, but it is pop music that has been submerged in a dreamlike, slightly disquieting brine.
Start with their debut 'In Sepiatone' to hear the foundation of their cinematic style. It is the perfect entry point for those who love the ethereal tension of Julee Cruise or the chic melancholy of Francoise Hardy, but want something with a more rugged, experimental edge.
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