Everything Squared cover

Everything Squared

Released

There’s something perfect about Seefeel returning, after 13 years of relative silence, with 26 minutes of music. They were never a group to overstate things, which means their catalogue may be small, but it’s near to perfect. Everything Squared reminds of 1996’s (Ch-Vox) in both its brevity, and the overarching feeling that it’s a satellite from something more rigorously formed. In this case, it feels like a neat mini summation of the various things Seefeel do. There’s looping, angelic voice, chimeric guitar drones and dub bass on “Sky Hooks”; ambient distress and space-travel shudder on “Lose The Minus”; chimes, scratchy rhythms and liminal glitches throughout “Antiskeptic”. Mark Clifford has the good sense to refine his music to its core and to not let second-rate material out into the world, and Seefeel’s collected works so far may be slight – six albums over three decades – but it’s powerful for its focus. The way Clifford and Sarah Peacock are so thoroughgoing in their attention to the details of Seefeel’s sound world, their ability to find new things in the simple juxtaposition of previously known elements, means Everything Squared manages that rare feat of feeling both lived-in and alien.

Jon Dale

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