silentvision Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 1. Sky Hooks 2. Multifolds 3. Lose The Minus 4. Antiskeptic 5. Hooked Paw 6. End Of Here After critically acclaimed reissues of their mid-90s material, Seefeel return with their first new music since 2011. Everything Squared is a one-off 6-track mini-album which presents a contemporary evolution of their trademark sound. Mainly composed and performed by the core duo of Mark Clifford and Sarah Peacock, with bass on two tracks from Shigeru Ishihara. Mastered by Berlin-based engineer Stefan Betke aka Pole at Scape Mastering, and housed in a sleeve designed by Ian Anderson at The Designers Republic. We Are The Music Makers | Volume One by Various Seefeel have a long legacy of bending sound into illusory shapes, evidenced when they opened the floodgates in 2019 and 2021 with live recordings, album reduxes, and treasure troves of rare gems. Seen as a rebirth with a reinvigorated lineup, their self-titled 2011 album was preceded by a 14 year gap and is followed by a similar chasm of time where the group’s sonic laboratory experimentations have grown even more protean than before. Everything Squared is Seefeel’s first new music in over a decade, a “one-off mini-album” of shifting sound sculptures viewed from exciting new angles. Like their 1996 mini-album (Ch-Vox), Everything Squared completely strips and restructures what Seefeel had built up prior, dissolving the smashing drums and ripping electricity of their previous effort into something more primal, mythical, and spacious. ‘Sky Hooks’ fluctuates in a sub bass realm, a bubbling concoction with glimpses of vocals clipped and elasticated, teetering on the edge of split second rhythms. The hypnagogic serenity of flashes of ambience and chimes is torn by forking Tesla coil electronics, surging behind the track’s glassy exterior. Where the guitars do make themselves known, they send shockwaves through the album’s rippling fabric with their gentle throttle. But Everything Squared is a largely alchemical affair, alive in the abstractness of unidentifiable sounds morphing through turbulence: the highly textural percussive elements of ‘Hooked Paw’ splashing and wobbling through labyrinthine dub-indebted environments, the rushes of soft noise, murmuring bass, and synth dots looping in quiet ecstasy on ‘Multifolds’. ‘Antiskeptic’ is a sputtering electrical storm, its solid slams and growling glitches offset by idyllic sparkles coating the track in a fine layer of glitter. Contrastive, simultaneously elegant and fractured, like the apocalyptic stomps of ‘End Of Here’ raining on reverent vocal manipulations and melody fizzling in the background. Seefeel create another enticing world on Everything Squared with their sound evolving in fractal-like motions. https://bleep.com/release/465652-seefeel-everything-squared 13 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivan Ooze Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 Fukk yeah 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danshoebridge Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 (edited) Holy shit great news. Also playing cafe oto but apparently sold out already... Edited July 23 by danshoebridge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Friendly Stranger Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 oh hell yea. Loving this first track. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnarlybog Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 Nice! While I admire the left turn of that previous record, its nice to get a bit of the ghostly space atmosphere back. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
o00o Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 It sounds really nice. I hope the other tracks hold the level Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scaramouche Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 Excellent! 30th of Aug release date, thank you. Sky Hooks is wicked. 2 hours ago, danshoebridge said: Holy shit great news. Also playing cafe oto but apparently sold out already... I booked tickets for that pronto, it was a nice surprise to see it in the listings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thumbass Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 Haunting, beautiful track and great news! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Lukie Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 always so down bad for new Seefeel. this is sounding fantastic!! I hope there's even more to come from them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exitonly Posted July 24 Share Posted July 24 9 hours ago, gnarlybog said: While I admire the left turn of that previous record that was a Slowdive record Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Key Posted July 24 Share Posted July 24 Fantastic news. Even if its only a one off mini album theyre such a great band its nice to see them continue. (Ch-vox) is my favorite record of theirs so I'm glad to see it's spiritual successor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arti Posted July 24 Share Posted July 24 Looking forward to this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splesh Posted July 29 Share Posted July 29 New Seefeel is always welcome news, great stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scaramouche Posted July 29 Share Posted July 29 Really excited for this album. Seefeel has been back in heavy rotation. Revisited the Seefeel x KMRU mix from 2021, totally forgot it existed: https://seefeel.bandcamp.com/track/rapture-to-rupt 1 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hi Guys Posted July 29 Share Posted July 29 I hope that unreleased tune they were playing live in 2019 is gonna come out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danshoebridge Posted July 29 Share Posted July 29 The live 12" with Spangle and Gatha is back as well if anyone missed it last time round. https://bleep.com/release/223444-seefeel-sp19-ga19 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goiter Sanchez Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 9 hours ago, Hi Guys said: I hope that unreleased tune they were playing live in 2019 is gonna come out It's on there, 'Multifolds'! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stock Posted August 2 Share Posted August 2 Sky Hooks is very good and I am excited for the album. Not really enjoying the artwork however! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thumbass Posted August 8 Share Posted August 8 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
o00o Posted August 8 Share Posted August 8 (edited) Oh this is getting really good. Looking forward to the live shows again I really enjoy the trippy vibe they have going on. Would be really cool if they kept riding this wave for some more releases and a tour Edited August 8 by o00o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubin Farr Posted August 8 Share Posted August 8 Sounds similar to LampEyes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnarlybog Posted August 8 Share Posted August 8 Nicee damp wet dub stylings. Agree on the cover art... very odd font choice and placement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Friendly Stranger Posted August 9 Share Posted August 9 I like where this is going! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thumbass Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 I love the cover art and the font! It fits the music It looks a bit moldy and I think the tracks sound a bit moldy as well (in a good way). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goiter Sanchez Posted August 11 Share Posted August 11 The font choice is in-line with previous art they've done with tDR. The title is placed in a way that makes it difficult to read though, but I think it was a deliberate decision 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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