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From London, UK comes a new band, one which looks to shake things up in the British music scene. Sentience are set to release their new album Oleka on the 15th March, with it promising to be one of the best from a newcomer this year. The album showcases the band’s wide-ranging talent perfectly throughout its seven intensely emotional and heavy tracks, drawing influence from and further developing the sound of bands like Monuments, Tesseract and Textures.
The downpicking on Oleka is sublime, as are the alternatingly ethereal and crushing vocals of Stuart Sarre. Every single song is thoroughly varied, both in terms of sound and structure; proggy build-ups lead up to pounding grooves, with each song seeming heavier than the last until the monstrous finale. After dropping this titan of an album, I’m certain Sentience will rise through the ranks at a considerable pace, alongside other promising UK acts such as No Sins Evades His Gaze, Aeolist, Novena and FRAKTIONS.