(Warp)
Previously known as a band who leaned toward the electronic end of the dreamy, drifty mid-90s shoegaze sound, Seefeel return with a terrific new album that finds them venturing deeper into the leftfield, blurring the lines between guitars and synths further than ever. Defined by an ingenious knack for manipulating layers of feedback into oddly melodic hums and buzzes, this is a headphones record that gets more absorbing with every listen. The appropriately titled Dead Guitars sees those instruments glitched and phased into near-oblivion, their riffs reborn as weird digital signatures; on Airless, a gorgeous, faraway vocal hook undergoes a similar process amid a creepy haze of scratches and squalls. It's largely downtempo ? live drums and bass provide a roomy, dub-tinged framework for all the emergent noise ? but treads a fine line between tension and chaos, right up to the quietly thrilling, systems-failure decay of the album's final moments. A hugely impressive rebirth.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/feb/03/seefeel-warp-cd-review
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