Footprints On The Sun: Sinna’s Psychedelic Rock Odyssey Begins with a “Love Story in the Apocalypse”

Certain artists follow a path set before them, while others create their own in uncharted territories. Sinna, lead vocalist and creative force behind the up-and-coming band Footprints on the Sun, is doing the latter—colliding raw narrative, genre-bending soundscapes, and emotion into a debut album that would sound like it came from another place, broadcast on another kind of wavelength.

Sinna and Footprints on the Sun recently released their debut album in February, titled “Love Story in the Apocalypse: Chapter One“. It is very conceptual in content, showing the listener an alien protagonist trying to understand human beings as the world is beginning to fall apart before his eyes. It’s like listening to a psychedelic rock opera in the way it shifts genres, features insane arrangements, and the vocals span the bizarre, stunning bewilderment that is life.

But behind it is a true story of drive, fixation, and do-it-yourself spirit. “I did most of it myself on this album,” says Sinna. “I did the vocals, the instrumentation, the production, I had to teach myself most of it from scratch.” Born poor, recording on tight schedules and tight budgets, Sinna swapped club nights out for writing, recording, and re-recording tracks. “If I am not practicing or working on performance, I am making music. It is my life.”

Footprints on the Sun as a group came about only after the album had been completed, since Sinna needed a group of musicians to bring his music to life on stage. Their initial performance some weeks ago was a breakthrough, both emotional and artistic.

Sinna’s sound is in no way following trends, but that is the point. Operating within an array of influences, no two songs on the album are alike. But they are united in their uniqueness. “All that I do is meant to be different from what’s already out there,” he continues. “If it were similar to a song that’s already out, I scrap it.”

In the future, Sinna has dreams of sold-out shows, charitable work, and giving back to the community that’s supported him from the beginning. But for now, the mission is to get his music out to the masses.