Sin Destino

01. Walls Fade --- 02. Desespero --- 03. En Sueños --- 04. Salvation Through Suffering --- 05. Foto Archivo --- 06. Sólo Baila Sola --- 07. Pronóstico Indefinido --- 08. Lost Image --- 09. Plea Bargain --- 10. Happy Endings --- 11. Kervorkian* --- 12. Logan's Sleep* --- *CD Only Bonus Track -- -- Freezing out the heat-seeking Miami scene with his cold minimal synth for the past decade, Ramiro Jeancarlo (1/2 of the industrial outfit Opus Finis) offers up ten tracks of analogue darkness. -- -- -- -- Sung in both English and Spanish, the forthcoming album is informed by Jeancarlo’s half Chilean, half Venezuelan background. Pervasive throughout the LP is an aura of dread and claustrophobia that without a doubt evokes the hot, dry, lonely landscape of suburban South Florida. But beyond the dismal swamplands, it's possible to detect the mournful ambiance of cultures plagued for centuries by colonization, civil war and political turmoil. Whether Jeancarlo means to offer "Salvation Through Suffering" as an alternative to everything from Catholicism to revolutions-turned-tyrannies is not explicit, but the distinctive mood of dread conjures something more monolithic than plain nihilism. Therein lies the fascinating duality: "Lost Image" could as easily land in a soundtrack to a film about a lonesome teen in desolate suburbia as it could a film about Pinochet's Caravan of Death. -- -- -- -- Another listing by Zip