Heroine

Sentinel

Heroine
Performed By Sentinel
Album UPC 634479775666
CD Baby Track ID 5229984
Label Sentinel
Released 2008-01-01
BPM 119
Rated 0
ISRC uscgh0887413
Year 2008
Spotify Plays 19
Writers
Writer Dennis Bestafka and Sandra Conde
Pub Co Dennis Bestafka and Sandra Conde
Composer Dennis Bestafka and Sandra Conde
ClearanceFacebook Sync License,Traditional Sync,YouTube Sync ServiceEasy Clear
Rights Controlled Master
Rights Easy Clear: Master
Original/Cover/Public Domain original
Country United States - California - SF

Description

This album is energetic, guitar driven, featuring female vocals, with soothing harmonies. It has dream-pop sensibility with Indie rock drive. Influenced by: Cocteau Twins, U2, Flock of Seagulls, Smiths, & Cure. Thanks for supporting indie music!

Notes

We are an Indie/Dream-Pop band based out of the Oakland, CA. The seeds of this sunny-seaside-dream-pop began with Tarabud & Dennis in 2000, joined by local musiciansr our powerful live shows. The following series of albums were self released from home studiol: Sentinel (self titled) - 2004; The Singles - 2005; Sequels & Hunches E.P. - 2007, and Kites Without Strings - 2008, For Days Deep - 2010, and various singles and lots of music videos.

Thanks to all our supporters: Live 105 FM,KALX, ESPN, Soma FM, Pandora Radio, Last FM, Amazing Radio, Virgin American- Inflight Sky Radio, Insomnia Radio, Burton Snowboards, MTV2, and beloved fans for all your support in the music!

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Album review:

August 2008
Westcoast Performer Magazine Review
by Keane Li

Sentinel's latest offering, Kites Without Strings, follows their 2007 EP, Sequels and Hunches. The album's dream-pop sound exists enigmatically with a defiance for normal principles: it's ambient and gentle, but energetic and without silence. Inspired by the band's exposure to the cultural and natural beauty found in the Bay Area, this mix successfully describes its four members' experience in living one thing and its opposite.

The eight-track album opens with "Ohlone," leading in with a catchy pulse of rhythmic drums and synth that builds into a driving chorus drenched in polyphonic vocals. The track starts off the album well, providing an upbeat indicator for the following songs.

Midway through, "Spades" serves as a percussive awakening from the dreamlike wistfulness of the album's initial half. Drums drive and keys stand out via repeating riffs adding a refreshing zest, while ambient vocals fill where synthetic sounds sat on previous tracks. It feels organic and vibrant, like sunlight breaking dawn.

The album concludes with "Heroine," a sultry song crawling in Phrygian. The imagery created from Sentinel's lyrics model the band's exotic, modal sound, which is especially meaningful as it represents guitarist Dennis Bestafka's experience as a soldier in Iraq: "There is a tribe on lonely land / Shadows cast the shapes on evening sand." It's a profound escapist end to a profound escapist album.

Filled with sumptuous synth, ultra-reverberated vocals and saturated guitars, Kites Without Strings erupts like one long, happy wall of sound. Most of the songs on the album employ a similar upbeat pop vibe, creating a cohesive quality that might make differentiating them difficult. Thankfully, there isn't a single bad track here, so this little bit of homogeneity proves itself more than welcome. (Self-released)

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