I saw this list the other day and felt compelled to make a more comprehensive, accurate, and essential rundown of albums that have truly stood out in a musical and historical sense. Albums that are influential, groundbreaking and still memorable. And let's be clear that bands like Galaxie 500, Mercury Rev, Verve, Mazzy Star, etc., these are all great bands that have produced some astounding work, but they are definitely not shoegaze. It's obviously way too early to rank the new MBV album so I'm not even gonna go there. [...]
@_Seefeel_ Género: Experimental rock, ambient music. En tiempos donde la fórmula madchester y baggy perecía, apareció Quique (pronunciado Keek), el debut de largo de Seefeel . Disco experimental e instrumental que fue adorado por muchos, entre los que me incluyo, y que sentó cátedra y nuevas arístas con las que dejarse embriagar por la música. Arrancaba con una de las mejores de subidas de telón de la música contemporánea: Climactic Phase #3 . Más de ocho minutos de peyote sonoro.
I tend to think that the term “post rock" is pretentious, the same way whenever someone drops "post-whatever" outside the context of a term paper how it's almost always lazy and represents an unwillingness to look closer at shifting trend. I considered writing this commentary with a post-modern style framework to illustrate the point, but it turns out I wasn't smart enough to pull that off. I'm not Mark Z. Danielewski over here. Anyway, no genre name is ever cool. The monikers of punk, shoegaze, and chillwave, among others, were all originally intended as insults by some [...]
DOWNLOAD///SOSMIX.68 1. Crystal Stilts: "Dark Eyes" 2. Gold Panda: "An Iceberg Hurled Northward Through Clouds (Peaking Lights Vocal Remix)" 3. Guitar: "Sakura Coming" 4. I Break Horses: "Pulse" 5. Jackson & His Computer Band: "Utopia" 6. John Tejada: "Subdivided" 7. Keep Shelly in Athens: "Lazy Noon" 8. Kraftwerk: "Aero Dynamik" 9. Seefeel: "Time to Find Me (Come Inside)" 10. Stephen Farris: "Element" [...]
UK indie-techno veterans Seefeel, who emerged from 12 years of hibernation to play at their longtime label Warp Records' 20th anniversary shows in 2009, have called off what would have been their first-ever U.S. tour. If the statement from the band is any indication, the reason for the cancellation seems all too familiar (see: Mogwai, Einsturzende Neubauten, Steve Ignorant/Crass). It reads: "Seefeel and Warp are extremely saddened to announce the cancellation of Seefeel's US tour. Bureaucratic hoop-jumping beyond the band's control is unfortunately to blame, and the fans will [...]
Whether you listen to an artist because they sound good or because you've been attracted by their name, either item always seems to be one of two reasons you've discovered any number of songs in your music library. Remember the old days before iTunes when you would look at the album cover and say, "Yup, I'm going to buy this". Now that times have changed and music is so readily available to us, it still comes down to the band name itself that can either make or break our decision to even listen to the artist. The list below represents [...]
Frank Yang I’m not sure what purpose Barcelona’s Parc del Forum, a fairly massive, considerably paved waterfront park on the edge of the city, is used for the rest of the year – it seems to built up and out of the way for just hanging out in – but for one weekend in May, at least, it’s a pretty terrific spot to hold a music festival. Some more grassy spaces would be welcome and being long and narrow, it can be a haul from one stage to the next, but when you realize you’re seeing a [...]
En la edición número 616 de Super 45 en Radio Duna , revisamos el panorama musical de la escena británica, destacando a los clásicos Wire ( Red Barked Tree ) y Seefeel ( Seefeel ). Además de los debuts de The Vaccines ( What do you expect from the Vaccines? ), Chapel Club ( Palace ), Yuck ( Yuck ) y el disco de Gill Scott Heron y Jamie XX ( We're new here ). MP3: Super45 Podcast # 616 (3 abril, 2011) Suscríbete al Podcast de [...]
It’s probably been said before, but considering all the bands who’ve reformed lately and basically performed guided tours of their back catalogue, it’s refreshing to see an act like Seefeel who all-but ignore the sound that they made their name with in favour of exploring a completely different avenue. The vibe among The Button Factory crowd seems to be one of curiosity rather than anticipation, but if anyone came expecting Seefeel to dip into influential records like Qique they would have been surprised at how the show pans out tonight. VisionAir are on supporting [...]
Next up in 1212 is Aphex Twin. Everyone's favourite Cornishman. To start with, Aphex Twin joining forces with post-rock Seefeel from way back when. Before AFX felt the need to use the sander and the blender. Although it is billed as the fast mix, it isn't. This is a great piece of post rock ambient strangeness and charm. Seefeel / Aphex Twin - Time To Find Me (afx fast mix)
CHECK YO' PONYTAIL 2 is proud to announce our latest show: the awaited return of SEEFEEL! On JULY 5 Seefeel will be coming to LA for the first time in over a decade. These pioneers sent ripples through the musical landscape that we are feeling very much today, even here in LA. See below for a full bio and video and make sure to get your tickets ASAP! GET YOUR TICKETS HERE From the band's website : In the heady days of [...]
Herein lies a rundown of all the new-to-me albums acquired in February, listed in the order I heard them. Happily, no disappointments this month! Low: Trust (2002) I mentioned earlier this month that I'd picked up Trust because I wanted to get back on board with Low, starting with where I left off. I'd heard a few songs from Trust when it first came out and didn't feel moved to get it—my impression was that it was, finally and inevitably, "just another Low album." Hearing it in full all these years [...]
Wow, when this record is good it really is very good indeed. In fact, when it's good it's fucking awesome. It is not, however, consistently excellent all the way through, which is a shame, but doesn't stop this being a cracking record. When a band reforms after almost twenty years, as these guys have done, it almost always leads to really boring, middle of the road releases which sound suspiciously like they have been written and recorded by people whose middle-aged jobs have afforded them the leisure and the means to relive some pale imitation of their youth, [...]
PJ Harvey : Let England Shake ( Vagrant ) Polly Jean's latest album is an odd yet glowing piece of art. At times it feels like a bluesy ambient record, hard to pin down, but a truly mesmerizing listen that keeps calling me back. If I had to pick an album of the year right now this would be it. Spiritualized : Lazer [...]
Iron & Wine: Kiss Each Other Clean James Blake: s/t John Vanderslice: White Wilderness (2) Josh Ritter: The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter PJ Harvey: Let England Shake Low: Trust Andrew Bird: Armchair Apocrypha Belong: October Language Disappears: Guider Arp: The Soft Wave Seefeel: Succour Three notes: I listened to the James Blake album in full for the first time and I realize [...]
Danish singersongwriter Agnes Obel plays The Sugar Club on April 16th ( more details ). Mike Posner's Dublin date next week will now be rescheduled to an unspecified later date . U:mack present Seefeel with Visionair on March 19th in Button Factory ( more details ). It's way off yet but Ane Brun plays Whelan's in November ( more details ). Best Of Space54 takes place in The Grand Social with Platinum Ray (DJ set), Cignol (live set), Educution [...]
When Seefeel originally appeared, they were mistakenly lumped in with the shoegazing bands of that era. And while there were similarities between Seefeel and a band like My Bloody Valentine, Seefeel had as much (if not more) in common with artists like Autechre and Aphex Twin. The self-titled new album Seefeel appears 15 years since their last album Ch-Vox , and feels less claustrophobic than that record. Where an album like Quique (their most celebrated and accessible album) floated and shimmered, Seefeel jars and shudders. But within the abrasive [...]
January 31, 2011 A selection of photos from Seefeel's gig at King's Place, London. www.sebastiendehesdin.com
A diver moving fluently and gracefully through the crystalline water. An eagle spreading its wings and gliding soundlessly through the sky. Two skaters floating across the ice. These are clichés, but clichés can be useful, and any critic looking to evoke the sense of effortless and frictionless beauty conjured by Seefeel 's splendid Quique would be tempted to recycle them. Seventeen years after Quique 's release and almost fifteen years after they decided to take a sabbatical, Seefeel have recorded a new, self-titled album. Things have changed, however, and while some of us only recently fell [...]
Plenty of decent stuff this week worth buying (from your local independent record store!) and a strong debut or two. Week starting Monday 31 January: Jonny - Jonny ( Turnstile ) Jonny - Michaelangelo (non-album track taken from their free EP) Esben and the Witch - Violet Cries ( Matador Records ) The Go! Team - Rolling Blackouts ( Memphis Industries ) Hercules [...]
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