sea:side – Clinch

Label: Antinational Noise – ANTN02
Format: Lathe-Cut Vinyl, 12", EP, Stereo
Country: Italy
Released: 2024
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Microhouse, IDM, Techno, Dark Ambient

A collaborative late-cut EP from sea:side — Giacomo Giunchedi and Eva Benfenati producing remotely, transferring files to one another across a process that gives the record a fragmented, assembled quality entirely in keeping with its sound. Mastered by Davide Bombanella at Groundfloor Studio in Modena, Clinch is dark ambient and experimental electronics at their most uncompromising across four distinct and deliberately unsettling pieces.

Clinch opens with high-tension, undulating techno that establishes the record's brooding intensity from the first bar. Notbutyou follows with skittering, electro-inspired techno that maintains the pressure while shifting the rhythmic character entirely. Several Kinds Of Disorder delivers the EP's harshest moment — abrasive noise with vocals that earns its title without apology. FHTS closes the record as its standout piece — looping ambience with a saturated bass drum and shimmering synths that offer something closer to resolution, the tension of the preceding three tracks releasing slowly into something more immersive and absorbing. Four tracks, four distinct moods, one cohesive and dark vision.