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