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Italian avant-garde authority NONSOLO PROGROCK analyzes SHEEN: ABSENCE, celebrating RDM Records' official US market deployment campaign.
"An unmissable appointment for anyone who loves music understood as pure art, free from commercial compromises and driven by an authentic, human expressive urgency. Welcome, RDM Records—the need for a breath of fresh air was truly felt!" — Massimo Salari, Rock Impressions / Tracce d'Improvvisazione — May 22, 2026
Massimo Salari (Italy) — SHEEN: Absence Full Analysis Highlights:
On RDM Records: "Makes its debut in the wider recording world... through productions that are certainly anything but predictable in today's musical landscape, seeking out what art, by its very nature, is meant to bestow."
On the Concept: "The marriage between vocal experimentation and avant-garde sound research finds a new, intriguing expression between electronics and philosophy... developing around the philosophical and psychological concept of subtraction."
On Romina Daniele: "A performance where the voice transcends the boundaries of traditional singing... Daniele uses the vocal fabric to scrape, cradle, and weave complex emotional textures."
On Lorenzo Marranini: "Rarefied soundscapes, minimalist drones, and electroacoustic music elements that engage in a constant, and often edgy, dialogue with the vocal lines."
On Track I: "A highly atmospheric introduction, where the empty space between one note and the next vibrates with a palpable tension. Romina Daniele enters this scenario not to sing a melody, but to 'inhabit' the sound."
On Track II: "A tighter, dialectical and psychological clash. An altered heartbeat, a geometric anxiety that tightens the space around the voice... atmospheres close to the heart of the most twilight-hued Thom Yorke."
On Track III: "An invisible work of chiseling, reducing the electronics to the bare minimum... silence is not a pause between notes, but the protagonist itself, while above it, Daniele uses her voice like a body."
Read the Full Review Online:
[Read Full Review on NonSoloProgRock] (Note: Scroll to the bottom of the page for the English Version)
📰 Critical Review: "Absence III" (Focus Track)
La Musique Management (France) — May 21, 2026
"From the very beginning, I had this interesting feeling of being transported back toward certain atmospheres The Cure explored during the Pornography, Faith, or Seventeen Seconds eras. Not in a derivative sense, but rather through this ability to create dense, cold, existential melancholia, where sound itself becomes almost a psychological landscape to move through... You are developing a dark, immersive, and demanding artistic proposal, with a genuine depth of sonic research behind it.
The treatment of textures, sonic masses, electroacoustic tensions, evolving dynamics... all of this reflects a high level of construction, experimentation and artistic intention. You can clearly feel the project’s conceptual, experimental and philosophical dimension. It is immediately clear that the goal here is not to create a formatted single, but rather an experience, almost a narrative and emotional journey.
There is something surprisingly rare in your proposal: a work that looks toward strong historical references while maintaining a contemporary sonic identity. This is not necessarily an easy-access project — and I suspect it is not trying to be — but it undeniably carries a strong artistic identity."
— Vincent, Autour de la Musique Management (France)
Vault Lab (Italy): "Un lavoro d’archivio e restauro... un ponte tra due tempi." — Read Full Round-up Feature (Scroll to Sheen / RDM Records section)
📰 Critical Review: "Absence III" (Focus Track)
Vault Lab (Italy) — May 17, 2026
“'Absence III' by Sheen, a project signed by Romina Daniele and Lorenzo Marranini, belongs to a completely different territory: that of sound research, electroacoustic electronics, and the progressive transformation of musical matter. Presented in the 2026 Official Label Edition by RDM Records, the track becomes the focal point of an archival and restoration work that brings to light a cycle originally conceived in Milan in 2015 and now finalized in Miami.
The piece is described as a descent into an existential journey: from chaotic electroacoustic research toward a form of spectral ballad. And it is precisely this transformation that makes it intriguing. “Absence III” does not seem to want to remain confined within abstract avant-garde, but rather attempts to endow experimentation with an emotional tension, a dramatic body, and a deeper possibility of listening.
The new edition is not merely a technical recovery, but a true aesthetic reaffirmation. The definitive master seeks to restore the project’s original vibration, while adapting it to contemporary high-fidelity standards. In this sense, “Absence III” is also a bridge between two eras: the initial creative moment and its current re-emergence within a broader and international record market context.
It is a track for those who seek experience rather than rhythm in electronics: sound as a mental space, absence as presence, fragment as memory. Sheen constructs a listening experience that does not concede easy immediacy, but invites the listener to remain inside the fracture, within the tension between form and dissolution.”
🔗 View Original Feature on Vault Lab (Italian) (Scroll to Sheen / RDM Records section)
