Misconception was abound as I prepared to delve into a little evening sin… Taking into account the "fleshy" cover booklet image and a song list drenched in "pain," quick thoughts raced through my head that maybe this wouldn't be the most subtle of listening experiences.

And I was wrong. A listening experience that not only placates pain with pleasure, "Noisy Pipes…" is a warm spring that soothes the senses, engulfing the soul with transient flashes of technically orchestrated beauty.

The French trio that delivers these "Lovely Noises" makes an ultra-mod splash into the pool of protoplasmic purity, a skin-soothing glaze that later cuts right to the bone - "Stolen Gestures," "SM," effectively cross-breeding the ambient sounds of Depeche Mode with the surgical strike of Nine Inch Nails.

Going further into the depths of comparable sights and developed sounds first drawn out by the inimitable Tangerine Dream and recently The Bowery Electric, the first half of original creation ends with "SM" before an extensive display of mix-mastered wizardry sends a forceful gust of galvanization on the concluding half-maybe an overall title reversal is in order here.

Sin's "Noisy Pipes, Lovely Noises" is an amalgamation of new age modernity and hi-tech European flavored house that brims passionately like an evening star, leaving you all at once breathless and aroused.

Re;eased by Koch Records

Review by Vinnie Apicella