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- Date Released: January 1, 1993
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Label: Too Pure
A loving repackaging of a classic debut.
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We Say...
If Seefeel hadn’t been signed to the excellent English label Too Pure, Quique might’ve just as easily ended up in the New Age bin at your local record store — lost to the hipster masses who anointed the group’s ambient masterpiece a classic. But they were, and Seefeel’s music came at just the right moment, both anticipating IDM early adopters like Autechre and Aphex Twin and moving a step beyond epic shoegazers My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive. (Quique and the latter’s Pygmalion are of a piece, although Seefeel beat Slowdive to the punch by a good two years.)
Quique (Redux Edition) collects the group’s first album and second disc of alternate mixes and rarities into one hazy, indistinct package. Long out of print, Quique sounds as dated (drums) and as forward-thinking (everything else) as ever. “Polyfusion” is a perfect example of this dichotomy — despite observing the group’s foolhardy “no drum fills” rule throughout, its sample-based dub groove is still mesmerizing. “Plainsong” and “Climactic Phase No. 3” are the classics, wrapping their drum loops in enough gauze to make the relentless trudge go down easily.
The extras, as you might expect, are a mixed bag. “Clique,” previously unreleased, sounds brighter and more present than anything on Quique and somehow suffers for it, while “Is It Now?” is a nightmare wherein a typewriter searches in vain for a line break. “My Super 20” and “Silent Pool” operate in the same aimless ambient space, however, and come out as supreme pieces of aural driftwood. It just goes to show: there’s a fine line between hip and New Age. -
They Say...
The early days of Seefeel are as bright as they are mysterious. Mark Clifford, Daren Seymour, Justin Fletcher, and Sarah Peacock had unleashed a curious blend of prog rock, ambience, and minimalism -- a sort of electronic hybrid that had listeners simultaneously scratching their heads while hitting the repeat button. The song's structures are based on adding and subtracting layers, keeping chord changes at a minimum. Tracks like "Climactic Phase 3" and "Polyfusion" ride glittering collages of keyboard loops, cyclical guitar feedback, and thunking drum machines, occasionally garnished by Peacock's wordless vocal phrasings. "Industrious" is an open sky of majestic ambience and vocals, with clipped drums anchoring the mix on all sides. It makes for a prog rock reminder of early Aphex Twin (a longtime supporter of Clifford), and the mutual influence shows. "Imperial" overlaps several watery layers of sequencing for another (and especially chromatic) soundscape, inducing a sort of trance that has nothing to do with the dancefloor. "Plainsong" grooves along in an up-tempo stratosphere, the album's most likely candidate for any sort of radio play. Here, Peacock's voice is equally plain in delivery -- certainly unintelligible -- a supporting character that follows the song rather than leads it. "Charlotte's Mouth" is yet another assembly of heavily produced guitar loops, like harmonic droplets of feedback that fall around a dry rhythm track and hums of dubby bass notes. "Through You" trickles down from the rafters with anthemic, ambient chords and a moist cave full of carbonated drum fizz (even a cheap Casio sounds good with Clifford at the mixer), and the aptly titled "Filter Dub" follows the implied style of rhythm, with saturated clouds of ghostly reverb. The album closes with "Signals," a subdued nighttime prayer that glows and shimmers in suspended animation, much like Eno and Lanois' richly explored Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks. The quartet would delve into darker waters later with sparse albums like Succour and CH-VOX, but here they stay closer to their roots as a guitar-driven outfit. In a way, this is Seefeel at their most ornate. They squint by staring into the geometric refractions of light and record the results.
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| 01. |  |
Climactic Phase No.3 |
8:24 |
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| 02. | |
Polyfusion |
6:23 |
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| 03. | |
Industrious |
6:40 |
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| 04. | |
Imperial |
6:40 |
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| 05. | |
Plainsong (Album Version) |
7:43 |
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| 06. | |
Charlotte’s Mouth |
7:27 |
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| 07. | |
Through You |
5:48 |
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| 08. | |
Filter Dub |
8:46 |
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| 09. | |
Signals |
5:47 |
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| 10. | |
Clique |
5:28 |
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| 11. | |
Is It Now? |
4:23 |
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| 12. | |
Filter Dub (1-01 Mix) |
9:40 |
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| 13. | |
Come Alive (Climactic Phase No.1) |
5:41 |
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| 14. | |
Time To Find Me (Alternate Desk Mix) |
5:20 |
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| 15. | |
Charlotte’s Mouth (Avant Garde Mix) |
7:27 |
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| 16. | |
My Super 20 |
6:31 |
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| 17. | |
Climactic Phase No.3 (Overnight Mix) |
8:31 |
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| 18. | |
Silent Pool |
7:02 |
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18 Total Tracks, 123:41 Total Length
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Credits
- Seefeel - Producer // Seefeel - Main Performer // Seefeel - Mixing // Mark Clifford - Guitar // Mark Clifford - Composer // Mark Clifford - Programming // Mark Clifford - Producer // Mark Clifford - Engineer // Mark Clifford - Sequencing // Mark Clifford - Rhythm Programming // Justin Fletcher - Percussion // Justin Fletcher - Composer // Justin Fletcher - Programming // Justin Fletcher - Producer // Justin Fletcher - Rhythm Programming // Sarah Peacock - Composer // Sarah Peacock - Vocals // Sarah Peacock - Producer // Daren Seymour - Bass // Daren Seymour - Composer // Daren Seymour - Vocals // Daren Seymour - Producer // Daren Seymour - Radio // David Masters - Photography // Mark Van Hoen - Engineer // Stuart - Editing // Codex - Digital Editing // Adrian Harrow - Engineer // Jane Brownhill - Photography
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