Seefeel - Everything Squared (August 30, 2024)

[silentvision]

 

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.

 

 

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

[Ivan Ooze]

Fukk yeah

[danshoebridge]

Holy shit great news. Also playing cafe oto but apparently sold out already...

Edited July 23 by danshoebridge

[Friendly Stranger]

oh hell yea. Loving this first track.

[gnarlybog]

Nice! While I admire the left turn of that previous record, its nice to get a bit of the ghostly space atmosphere back.

[o00o]

It sounds really nice. I hope the other tracks hold the level 

[Scaramouche]

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.  

[thumbass]

Haunting, beautiful track and great news!

[Kid Lukie]

always so down bad for new Seefeel. this is sounding fantastic!! I hope there's even more to come from them! 

[exitonly]

9 hours ago, gnarlybog said:

While I admire the left turn of that previous record

that was a Slowdive record

[Key]

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.

[arti]

Looking forward to this.

[splesh]

New Seefeel is always welcome news, great stuff

[Scaramouche]

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  

[Hi Guys]

I hope that unreleased tune they were playing live in 2019 is gonna come out 

[danshoebridge]

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

[Goiter Sanchez]

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'!

[Stock]

Sky Hooks is very good and I am excited for the album. Not really enjoying the artwork however!

[thumbass]

 

 

[o00o]

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

[Rubin Farr]

Sounds similar to LampEyes 

[gnarlybog]

Nicee damp wet dub stylings.
Agree on the cover art... very odd font choice and placement.

[Friendly Stranger]

I like where this is going!

[thumbass]

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).

[Goiter Sanchez]

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