Okay, so I didn't see one when I searched, so wtf? {Jockist} Seefeel - Classic or Dud? What's their Batting Average?

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I'm listening to Quique at work, picked it up Saturday for $3. Always liked this band, but never had a full album or anything. ~~Met Mark Clifford once and what a nice guy~~NAMEDROP WITHHELD.

So, there's tons of mentions of them all over ILM, but no C or D that I saw. Obv. they get tons of props. Weigh in with the whys, the whats, the hows, the whoozits, the heretofores, the anchors, the 16 men on a dead man's chest yohoho and a bottle of rum. What are these people doing now? Why do I like this immediately better than the Disco Inferno stuff I have? Why must I keep asking questions? What do you think Mark Clifford's b-ball game is like? Can he shoot the three?

― hstencil, Monday, 9 December 2002 20:45 (twenty-two years ago)

This is, hands down...one of the best albums to come out in the 90's...I listen to it a lot. I bought it for 2 dollars. I am wearing a green sweater. thank you!

oh yeah, Clsassick!

― dead dead bird, Monday, 9 December 2002 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

ddb, did I ever tell you how charming, handsome and debonair you are in person?

Shit, if I had any single female friends, I'd play matchmaker. Seriously.

― hstencil, Monday, 9 December 2002 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

dood, you are making me blush. I don't think this is the place for internet flirting...but that seefeel record is the bomb, the other one on astralwerks isn't as good, although it has some afx remixes. I haven't heard the one on warp, I think it's on warp...i'm not sure. I'm confused at the thought of potentially dating one of your lady friends.

― ddb, Monday, 9 December 2002 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Wonderful.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 December 2002 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Seefeel took me a little while to fully appreciate. Why, I'm not sure -- their sounds are burbly and beautiful, their rhythms quite accessible (if a little dated at times). The first album I got of theirs, however, is _Succour_, which I'm sure explains a lot, it having a more early-Warp IDM-y sound and being less pretty on the surface. _Quique_ and _Polyfusia_, on the other hand, are masterful. Some of the tracks pull off the strange accomplishment of sounding simultaneously very much post-shoegaze and incredibly clean and pristine. Specific songs search (one from each of those two albums): "Moodswing" and "Charlotte's Mouth."

― Clarke B., Monday, 9 December 2002 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay, so does anybody not like them? Let's hear from the haters, too.

― hstencil, Monday, 9 December 2002 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Seefeel smells like wee.

(Not really, I just wanted to give you what you wanted.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 9 December 2002 21:20 (twenty-two years ago)

i saw them 4 times and i never liked them

the bassist was silly

i cant remember what they sounded like other than sub-disco inferno

i also saw them on tv with cocteau twins once, they spoiled the song :(

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 9 December 2002 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)

must confess I only have them on Warp compilations, but I wasn't as impressed as I was with the couple of Disco Inferno tracks I have on tape (Last Sound of Summer?)

Hmmm. I feel a strong need to rediscover this on p2p ... byeeee

― phil jones (interstar), Monday, 9 December 2002 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)

The Disco Inferno comparison confuses me - they strike me as more like My Bloody Valentine smacked out in the back room at a club. I only have Polyfusia alas, having never found Quique anywhere.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 9 December 2002 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

i liked them, too, so sorry i can't be a haterz. but then again, i only had quique. (on clear vinyl, to boot... mwah hah hah!) they were everything i loved in music at a certain time. lovely dronerock guitar textures, whispery female vocals, lovely lovely REPETITION, taking lovely riffs and shaking them to death like a dog with a bone. and all with guitars. the IDM band that it's OK for shoegazers and dronerockers to like! hooray!

I keep getting confused by the DDB that posts here, that he(she?) is a Dirty Dronerock Boy and not a Dead Dead Bird.

― kate, Monday, 9 December 2002 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Funny, of the Seefeel discs I've heard, Quique is probably my least favorite. Not that I dislike it, it just doesn't seem as good as any of the others -- blander, or less focused. I like Succour the best, closely followed by the Pure, Impure EP. I enjoy More Like Space, have never really clicked with CH-VOX, and have yet to hear the Starethrough EP. Succour is definitely my favorite, in any event. I've heard it accused of being a ripoff of Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2, but I don't buy that at all.

How do you pronounce "Quique", anyway? Like Anglicized Latin, or French, or...?

― Phil (phil), Monday, 9 December 2002 23:34 (twenty-two years ago)

i always pronounced it kwee-kway, but i've been told that this is wrong, and it's supposed to be more like kick. who knows...?

― kate, Monday, 9 December 2002 23:39 (twenty-two years ago)

keek

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

queequeg

― gygax!, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 00:02 (twenty-two years ago)

ESOJ is correct.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)

agree with the quique love, then they went downhill fast, or at least mark clifford did. I suspect it is mostly just him on 'succour' and 'ch-vox' as Scala approximates the sound of 'quique' more closely than Seefeel's later records or his releases as disjecta(or whatever he was called). Too Pure seemed to come with an amazing record every week back then, those were the days. Now they are releasing Secretly Canadian bands, it's all gone horribly wrong.

― keith (keithmcl), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 04:49 (twenty-two years ago)

You know, I really tried to like this band and I never got into them.

I had Quique and Succor and just never got into them. They were just kind of washy and lukewarm and their records never really took off. Also, I absolutely hated the way they would eq their records, they would always just wreck their tone. I also have the remixes they did for the Cocteau Twins, which were bad as well. The remixes were very uncreative and one-trick-pony-esque.

Seefeel were one of those cannon bands that I just never could figure out. Most canon stuff I can at least grasp why other people like it, even if it doesn't do anything for me. I don't like the Beatles, but I can see why other people would. I have absolutely no idea why they received so much praise.

Hell, even early Moonshake were better than they were, and that is not saying much. Moonshake were largely bad, but they had a few moments of absolute genius on Eva Luna. I have never heard any Seefeel that has been better than mundane.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 10:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Dirty Dronerock Boy

yes, yes & yes!

-ddb

― ddb, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

so you ARE a genuine, honest to god dirty dronerock boy?

::faints::

will you marry me?

― kate, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

He's not that dirty, but he's definitely charming and handsome.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

DDB, you LIED to me. when was the last time you washed your hair? which has happened more recently, washing your hair or listening to Neu! - I'm not falling for any more FAKE DDB's.

― kate, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I guess I should clarify - ddb wasn't as dirty as the dirtiest person around when I met him. The dirtiest person was Keith No-Neck, and he's like the Pigpen (the Peanuts character, not the dead Dead organist) of the NYC underground scene, it was maybe a bad comparison. ddb may be dirtier than, say, an investment banker or even a pizzeria employee, but you wouldn't want to meet him if he was as dirty as, say, Wesley Willis.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

to clarify...I don't wash my hair to often (once every two-three weeks, sometimes longer, gross eh?)....I really love Dronerock, and yes Kate I will marry you...we can get Pelt to play our wedding.

(hstencil stop selling me short dood...when you saw me, it was dark...and Merzbow may have affected your preception)

-ddb

― ddb, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

perception

sorry kate grammer and spelling aren't strong points

― ddb, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

d00d, no one's dirtier than Keith No-Neck. Except maybe Wesley Willis.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

dood, Keith no-neck is a slob!! a gnarly mountain man of slob, but I dig no-neck, so no offense Keith.

ddb

― ddb, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

hey, ddb is mine! all mine!

you should post your picture of you and danzig.... hahahaha.

― gygax!, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I dig NNCK too, and he seems like a good guy, but man take a shower.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

damn you gygax!!!!!!!
just when i thought everyone forgot about the me and Danzig picture...you bring it up.

-ddb

― ddb, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

five months pass...

I finally found a copy of a Seefeel record "Ch-Vox" and it really sounds pretty good to me. Their artic sound really is great. They don't have a mindbending new sound, but it works for me. This record reminds me a bit of both Aphex's SAW II and Windy & Carl's "Antartica", both of which I like quite a bit.

― earlnash, Saturday, 24 May 2003 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

ten years pass...

just a little reminder of their talent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYWh3RAQgH4

― OutdoorFish, Friday, 24 January 2014 23:18 (eleven years ago)

Loved Seefeel, but I had a lot of time for their subsequent band Scala, which sounded like the future of pop to a younger me. Best track was "Remember How To Breathe" off Too You in Alpha (1998), but their "Heart of Glass" cover on Beauty Nowhere (1996) is representative. Sarah Peacock's voice, alas, doesn't project well in poppier settings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cHsbKFb76Q

Oh look, they had a couple proper promo vids:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRB4nxF-OTY

Oh, some Seefeel promos have surfaced:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0z7NCr3Z08

― disposable soma (Sanpaku), Saturday, 25 January 2014 05:41 (eleven years ago)

Aw, I loved Scala too. Especially "Eyes Alpha/Be Together" from To You In Alpha. And Slide! The Scala stuff, plus Mark Van Hoen's Last Flowers from the Darkness and Locust's Morning Light are all of a piece to me, late 90s electronic pop stuff.

― erry red flag (f. hazel), Saturday, 25 January 2014 06:27 (eleven years ago)

Morning Light always struck me as a great lost trip-hop album, just a notch below the Massive Attack/Portishead/Tricky triumvirate.

― disposable soma (Sanpaku), Saturday, 25 January 2014 06:33 (eleven years ago)

five years pass...

Embarking on their first-ever US tour?

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 19 August 2019 16:10 (six years ago)

North American tour, actually.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 19 August 2019 16:12 (six years ago)

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