After almost 5 years on hiatus, South of France‘s multi-instrumentalist and composer Nicolas, former vocalist and guitarist of the ’80s influenced Post Punk duo Paradise Cove, who some may recall from their debut album, fatalistically titled “Dead End,” on Cold Transmission Music a few years back, returns with his new solo musical endevour, Sonic Thing, to reveal the first song called “Manichean,” lifted from the forthcoming full length “Breathe in,Breathe out.”
Swept by a blustery breeze of Coldwave epics, “Manichean” speaks about the battle between light and darkness that resides within us all, through an eternal lens of struggle.
The song judders with electric tension and a palpable sense of drama through hypnotic punching drum programming and pulsing buzzing bottom ends, stabbed by murky chugging undercurrents and sparse, gravely piercing guitar slivers, overlaid with uncanny synth chords and hopeless glowing swirls, to surround gloomy, frustrated vocals striving on the knife’s edge through a final ominous surge of droning impulses.
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