Oh, Sinai! By Tritonic: Review

by admin October 14, 2025

October 14, 2025

Tritonic’s latest single, “Oh, Sinai!” taken from their upcoming album Bend the Arc! Is an ordeal. Slated for release on November 23, 2025, and available only on wax-dipped cassette, it’s a deliberate rejection of passive streaming culture. To hear the album in full, you have to physically engage with it, even destroy the artwork, a ritual of creation through destruction that perfectly mirrors the band’s philosophy. Recorded under strict self-imposed rules that every sound must “touch” the physical world, Tritonic forces listeners to confront the materiality of sound, blurring the line between chaos and craft.

“Oh, Sinai!” plunges headfirst into this sonic and philosophical turbulence. It kicks off with gritty, buzzing guitars that feel like they’re clawing their way out of the speakers. The bass growls beneath, trembling with restrained violence, while the drums erupt in sudden bursts, cymbals splashing like molten metal. Over this storm, Peter Jewkes delivers his vocals in a numb, desolate tone, like something ancient and irreversible. His voice drifts through the noise, half-buried yet commanding, as if caught in the aftermath of revelation.

Midway through, the track morphs into something uncanny, a long, wailing choral bridge that feels like monks chanting in a collapsing cathedral. The distortion surges, then slowly starts to decay, leaving only the echo of those haunting voices fading into silence. It’s a masterclass in tension and release, where even the noise feels purposeful.

With “Oh, Sinai!”, Tritonic once again stretches the limits of heavy music, fusing doom, noise, and free-jazz impulses into something raw, human, and disturbingly spiritual. It’s not an easy listen, but then again, enlightenment rarely is.