Seefeel
Quique (Redux Edition)
Boomkat Product Review:
The 2007 bumper edition of 'Quique', with an extra album's worth of bonus tracks and alternate mixes, has also been given the Abbey Road treatment.
Quique' is one of those albums that makes more sense now than it did when it was released. It arrived as the cultural tides were shifting; we weren't in full data dump crossover territory yet, but the idea that someone might enjoy The Orb and Aphex Twin as much as they did Cocteau Twins and MBV wasn't completely out of the question - peep Autechre's regular playlisting of Cocteau Twins and The The on their disengage show at around that same time for proof.
Mark Clifford, alongside Sarah Peacock, Justin Feltcher and Darren Seymour, proposed a utopian starting point here that's been fleshed out and elaborated on ever since, not just by Clifford and Peacock as they've steered Seefeel into new territory, but by shoegaze revivalists like Ulrich Schnauss, laptop-powered axe liquifiers Fennesz and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, and more recently the hypnagogic Melbourne wave: YL Hooi, CS + Kreme and Jonnine Standish.
Now the album's far less threatening to the status quo, but at the time Seefeel were part of a small handful of "proper bands" who were steadily freeing themselves from the limitations imposed on them by orthodox expectations. In the space of a few years, we were blessed with cataclysmic hybrid material from Bark Psychosis, Main, Flying Saucer Attack and Laika, and it was Seefeel who came closest to capturing the era's smokey back-room euphoria. Not exactly post-rock as it was labelled at the time, 'Quique' feels more like post-rave, tapping into the energy that drove Warp's 'Artificial Intelligence' innovations, finding the symmetry between 4AD's early catalog and AFX's spiraling comedown abstractions.
On 'Industrious': rickety drum loops scrape over shimmering guitars and a house-y two note bassline, while Peacock's wordless coos drape a layer of silk over the top end. They ditch the rhythm section entirely on 'Imperial', sampling their instruments and shivering repeating textures to mimic the density of shoegaze while following the gaze of techno. On the 'redux' version of the album, which Too Pure originally released on double CD back in '07, there's a glut of additional material, including extra tracks 'Clique', 'Is It Now?', 'My Super 20' and 'Silent Pool', and variant mixes of 'Filter Dub', 'Come Alive', 'Time to Find Me', 'Charlotte's Mouth' and 'Climactic Phase No. 3'. The definitive version for completists, for sure.
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Boomkat Product Review:
The 2007 bumper edition of 'Quique', with an extra album's worth of bonus tracks and alternate mixes, has also been given the Abbey Road treatment.
Quique' is one of those albums that makes more sense now than it did when it was released. It arrived as the cultural tides were shifting; we weren't in full data dump crossover territory yet, but the idea that someone might enjoy The Orb and Aphex Twin as much as they did Cocteau Twins and MBV wasn't completely out of the question - peep Autechre's regular playlisting of Cocteau Twins and The The on their disengage show at around that same time for proof.
Mark Clifford, alongside Sarah Peacock, Justin Feltcher and Darren Seymour, proposed a utopian starting point here that's been fleshed out and elaborated on ever since, not just by Clifford and Peacock as they've steered Seefeel into new territory, but by shoegaze revivalists like Ulrich Schnauss, laptop-powered axe liquifiers Fennesz and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, and more recently the hypnagogic Melbourne wave: YL Hooi, CS + Kreme and Jonnine Standish.
Now the album's far less threatening to the status quo, but at the time Seefeel were part of a small handful of "proper bands" who were steadily freeing themselves from the limitations imposed on them by orthodox expectations. In the space of a few years, we were blessed with cataclysmic hybrid material from Bark Psychosis, Main, Flying Saucer Attack and Laika, and it was Seefeel who came closest to capturing the era's smokey back-room euphoria. Not exactly post-rock as it was labelled at the time, 'Quique' feels more like post-rave, tapping into the energy that drove Warp's 'Artificial Intelligence' innovations, finding the symmetry between 4AD's early catalog and AFX's spiraling comedown abstractions.
On 'Industrious': rickety drum loops scrape over shimmering guitars and a house-y two note bassline, while Peacock's wordless coos drape a layer of silk over the top end. They ditch the rhythm section entirely on 'Imperial', sampling their instruments and shivering repeating textures to mimic the density of shoegaze while following the gaze of techno. On the 'redux' version of the album, which Too Pure originally released on double CD back in '07, there's a glut of additional material, including extra tracks 'Clique', 'Is It Now?', 'My Super 20' and 'Silent Pool', and variant mixes of 'Filter Dub', 'Come Alive', 'Time to Find Me', 'Charlotte's Mouth' and 'Climactic Phase No. 3'. The definitive version for completists, for sure.
Boomkat Product Review:
The 2007 bumper edition of 'Quique', with an extra album's worth of bonus tracks and alternate mixes, has also been given the Abbey Road treatment.
Quique' is one of those albums that makes more sense now than it did when it was released. It arrived as the cultural tides were shifting; we weren't in full data dump crossover territory yet, but the idea that someone might enjoy The Orb and Aphex Twin as much as they did Cocteau Twins and MBV wasn't completely out of the question - peep Autechre's regular playlisting of Cocteau Twins and The The on their disengage show at around that same time for proof.
Mark Clifford, alongside Sarah Peacock, Justin Feltcher and Darren Seymour, proposed a utopian starting point here that's been fleshed out and elaborated on ever since, not just by Clifford and Peacock as they've steered Seefeel into new territory, but by shoegaze revivalists like Ulrich Schnauss, laptop-powered axe liquifiers Fennesz and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, and more recently the hypnagogic Melbourne wave: YL Hooi, CS + Kreme and Jonnine Standish.
Now the album's far less threatening to the status quo, but at the time Seefeel were part of a small handful of "proper bands" who were steadily freeing themselves from the limitations imposed on them by orthodox expectations. In the space of a few years, we were blessed with cataclysmic hybrid material from Bark Psychosis, Main, Flying Saucer Attack and Laika, and it was Seefeel who came closest to capturing the era's smokey back-room euphoria. Not exactly post-rock as it was labelled at the time, 'Quique' feels more like post-rave, tapping into the energy that drove Warp's 'Artificial Intelligence' innovations, finding the symmetry between 4AD's early catalog and AFX's spiraling comedown abstractions.
On 'Industrious': rickety drum loops scrape over shimmering guitars and a house-y two note bassline, while Peacock's wordless coos drape a layer of silk over the top end. They ditch the rhythm section entirely on 'Imperial', sampling their instruments and shivering repeating textures to mimic the density of shoegaze while following the gaze of techno. On the 'redux' version of the album, which Too Pure originally released on double CD back in '07, there's a glut of additional material, including extra tracks 'Clique', 'Is It Now?', 'My Super 20' and 'Silent Pool', and variant mixes of 'Filter Dub', 'Come Alive', 'Time to Find Me', 'Charlotte's Mouth' and 'Climactic Phase No. 3'. The definitive version for completists, for sure.
Boomkat Product Review:
The 2007 bumper edition of 'Quique', with an extra album's worth of bonus tracks and alternate mixes, has also been given the Abbey Road treatment.
Quique' is one of those albums that makes more sense now than it did when it was released. It arrived as the cultural tides were shifting; we weren't in full data dump crossover territory yet, but the idea that someone might enjoy The Orb and Aphex Twin as much as they did Cocteau Twins and MBV wasn't completely out of the question - peep Autechre's regular playlisting of Cocteau Twins and The The on their disengage show at around that same time for proof.
Mark Clifford, alongside Sarah Peacock, Justin Feltcher and Darren Seymour, proposed a utopian starting point here that's been fleshed out and elaborated on ever since, not just by Clifford and Peacock as they've steered Seefeel into new territory, but by shoegaze revivalists like Ulrich Schnauss, laptop-powered axe liquifiers Fennesz and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, and more recently the hypnagogic Melbourne wave: YL Hooi, CS + Kreme and Jonnine Standish.
Now the album's far less threatening to the status quo, but at the time Seefeel were part of a small handful of "proper bands" who were steadily freeing themselves from the limitations imposed on them by orthodox expectations. In the space of a few years, we were blessed with cataclysmic hybrid material from Bark Psychosis, Main, Flying Saucer Attack and Laika, and it was Seefeel who came closest to capturing the era's smokey back-room euphoria. Not exactly post-rock as it was labelled at the time, 'Quique' feels more like post-rave, tapping into the energy that drove Warp's 'Artificial Intelligence' innovations, finding the symmetry between 4AD's early catalog and AFX's spiraling comedown abstractions.
On 'Industrious': rickety drum loops scrape over shimmering guitars and a house-y two note bassline, while Peacock's wordless coos drape a layer of silk over the top end. They ditch the rhythm section entirely on 'Imperial', sampling their instruments and shivering repeating textures to mimic the density of shoegaze while following the gaze of techno. On the 'redux' version of the album, which Too Pure originally released on double CD back in '07, there's a glut of additional material, including extra tracks 'Clique', 'Is It Now?', 'My Super 20' and 'Silent Pool', and variant mixes of 'Filter Dub', 'Come Alive', 'Time to Find Me', 'Charlotte's Mouth' and 'Climactic Phase No. 3'. The definitive version for completists, for sure.
2025 extended audio re-master & new artwork.
Estimated Release Date: 28 March 2025
Please note that shipping dates for pre-orders are estimated and are subject to change
Boomkat Product Review:
The 2007 bumper edition of 'Quique', with an extra album's worth of bonus tracks and alternate mixes, has also been given the Abbey Road treatment.
Quique' is one of those albums that makes more sense now than it did when it was released. It arrived as the cultural tides were shifting; we weren't in full data dump crossover territory yet, but the idea that someone might enjoy The Orb and Aphex Twin as much as they did Cocteau Twins and MBV wasn't completely out of the question - peep Autechre's regular playlisting of Cocteau Twins and The The on their disengage show at around that same time for proof.
Mark Clifford, alongside Sarah Peacock, Justin Feltcher and Darren Seymour, proposed a utopian starting point here that's been fleshed out and elaborated on ever since, not just by Clifford and Peacock as they've steered Seefeel into new territory, but by shoegaze revivalists like Ulrich Schnauss, laptop-powered axe liquifiers Fennesz and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, and more recently the hypnagogic Melbourne wave: YL Hooi, CS + Kreme and Jonnine Standish.
Now the album's far less threatening to the status quo, but at the time Seefeel were part of a small handful of "proper bands" who were steadily freeing themselves from the limitations imposed on them by orthodox expectations. In the space of a few years, we were blessed with cataclysmic hybrid material from Bark Psychosis, Main, Flying Saucer Attack and Laika, and it was Seefeel who came closest to capturing the era's smokey back-room euphoria. Not exactly post-rock as it was labelled at the time, 'Quique' feels more like post-rave, tapping into the energy that drove Warp's 'Artificial Intelligence' innovations, finding the symmetry between 4AD's early catalog and AFX's spiraling comedown abstractions.
On 'Industrious': rickety drum loops scrape over shimmering guitars and a house-y two note bassline, while Peacock's wordless coos drape a layer of silk over the top end. They ditch the rhythm section entirely on 'Imperial', sampling their instruments and shivering repeating textures to mimic the density of shoegaze while following the gaze of techno. On the 'redux' version of the album, which Too Pure originally released on double CD back in '07, there's a glut of additional material, including extra tracks 'Clique', 'Is It Now?', 'My Super 20' and 'Silent Pool', and variant mixes of 'Filter Dub', 'Come Alive', 'Time to Find Me', 'Charlotte's Mouth' and 'Climactic Phase No. 3'. The definitive version for completists, for sure.
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