‘Everything Squared’ will be released on August 30th via Warp Records.

Too Pure darlings Seefeel are back 13-years after their 2011 self-titled album! Based in London, the core duo of Mark Clifford and Sarah Peacock have remained somewhat active over the last few years performing their singular guitar-driven electronic shoegaze at select shows around the world (a 2019 North America tour included a stop at The Echoplex for Part Time Punks), appearing on NTS Radio in 2016, and releasing various mixes online. With shoegaze, Aphex Twin, and dream pop fully back in the zeitgeist (largely through younger new listeners), now surely seems to be the perfect time for the band’s long-awaited return to releasing music.

Everything Squared is a one-off 6-track mini-album composed & performed by Clifford & Peacock, with bass on two tracks by Shigeru Ishihara aka DJ Scotch Egg, who released that amazing experimental dub album with Shackleton in 2023. Released on the band’s longtime label Warp Records, the mini-album “presents a contemporary evolution of the band’s trademark sound.”

Simon Reynolds’s “From Rapture To Rupt: The Journey of Seefeel” article presents a great overview of Seefeel’s musical arc thus far:

“Seefeel slip in and out of categories. In their time, they’ve been designated ‘ambient’ and lumped in with ‘post-rock’. Some revere them as part of the pantheon of Nineties IDM, alongside Autechre, Aphex Twin, and μ-Ziq. Seefeel’s early sound – blurry, wombing groovescapes propelled gently but firmly along by flicker-pulses and rippling patterns – anticipated the Basic Channel / Chain Reaction / Pole style of dubby house and techno that came out of Berlin a few years later. Equally, Seefeel’s colder, clanky ‘n’ cavernous side pre-echoes the dubstep of Pinch and Loefah. Yet despite all these associations and connections, parallels and pigeonholes, they sound unique.”

Opener “Sky Hooks” brings the familiar cold, sub-heavy production with Peacock’s vocal pitched up just slightly so it almost has a childlike-quality to it. A master of space (and time), Clifford is immensely patient with the vocal and is able to extend that simple “Everything right now” line into a 6-minute journey with slow, rippling delays. A similar technique is used on Seefeel’s breathtakingly beautiful remix of Cocteau Twins’ “Cherry Coloured Funk.” Like many of their classic tracks, “Sky Hooks” ends on an extended outro where the guitar and vocals are left looping through effects until they slowly fade into nothing.

Everything Squared will be released on August 30, 2024 via Warp Records.

Watch Seefeel’s 2019 Echoplex performance here (sound quality isn’t great, but it’s still worth a watch):