New BOC but what about new Seefeel?
kent williams <[email protected]> Mon, 4 May 2026 00:07:38 -0500
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SOL HZ dropped on Mayday. Seefeel has always been slippery, hard to define. Mark Cliffords' acousmatic approach to sound makes the familiar sounds strange. Guitar and synth and Sarah Peacock's voice get treated with effects and filters to render them vague shadows of their source audio. "Everydays" combines Autechre-esque stumble beats with stretched out sounds that might be guitar or synth, but lashed with so much reverb and delay it sounds like they recorded it in an abandoned Underground Tunnel. "Ever No Way" is closer to a "classic" Seefeel track with soft voices in close harmony. Giant donk kick and sine bass hold it down the shifting layers of swirling harmonies. And Boards of Canada aren't the only ones with subliminal layers. Subtle washes of filtered noise mutate into gently slapping drums. "Behind The Seen" combines subsonic morse code with a trash can kick drum to provide structure to a glorious chaos of overlapping, dubbed out sounds, are they samples of horns and flutes, or what and they seem to be floating in a heaving sea of dub echoes. "AM Flares" has all the midrange-forward intensity of My Bloody Valentine. A garbled vocal sample riffs on the 9th against the root tone of the bass. The song doesn't fade out. Everything stops playing, but the recording rolls on until the last reverb tail decays. "Falling First", like "Ever No Way" is also classic Seefeel, but with a loping 6/8 meter and shifting almost-violin patterns against a woman singing into a resonant bandpass filter. Seefeel are changing things up, trying beats that stray from the hip hop boom bap template their earlier albums used. The brutal, urgent log bashing drums of "Until Now" are pushed by bass so low it's a pitchless rumble. https://seefeel.bandcamp.com/album/sol-hz