Sine Star Project - Building Humans Format: Album Release Date: 3rd Mar 2008 Label: Blood Light Recordings Rating: Sine Star Project are not from this world. Ziggy Stardust left our universe, procreated and left his spawn to fend for themselves on a mixed diet of Muse, Led Zeppelin, Queen and magic dust.   The resultant “beings” have produced ‘Building Humans’ their follow up to One Little Indian released debut ‘Blue Born Earth Boy’. A grandiose prog-rock excursion from the mainstream to a world where you can imagine beards are not to be worn, but adored! Falsetto vocals, sweeping production that rolls the tracks around on their deep space drifting tempo. Lyrics about everything and nothing, with occasional explosions of Clingon imagining synths or Dark Side inducing powerchords.   The overbearing sense of melancholy that permeates every corner of this record can on occasion get a little to somber for the fantastic falsetto vocals that ride above it. Songs such as ‘Eternal Sadness For Man’ lose their way slightly when left to drift on minimal and basic instrumentation, the sparkle that makes stand out track ‘The Temptress’ so obviously crucial here.   Guilty of only the occasional insipid passage, this album is strong in its image and the projection of it. It is a small shame that the album doesn’t have the consistency to back up its obvious strengths.

Written by: David