Seefeel
Succour (Redux) 3LP

Just as paradigm-shifting ideas are met with some cautious scepticism when they first occur, the history of Seefeel’s second LP Succour is a little chequered. Coming in hot from the success of their 1993 debut Quique — regarded as a prophetic example of shoegaze’s eventual transformation into post-rock — a newly minted contract with Warp would prove symbolic of where the group would steer his project next. The few “rock” elements of its full-length predecessor had evaporated, and vast spaces of dub and ambient would come to inform 1995’s Succour. Skeletal rhythmic elements amalgamating into their brooding, elemental and completely singular sound.

Bookending tracks ‘Meol’ and ‘Tempean’ open up like two gaping mouths on a mottled, heavy beast of droning synthesis, laying the groundwork for the world-enveloping tones Stars of the Lid would later produce. The delicate balance of weights teeters throughout the LP, crushing up sheet metal percussion on the techno-minded ‘Fracture’ and ‘Rupt’, which both simultaneously recall Aphex Twin’s rhythmic experiments and large-scale dub textures. The latter style is heavily hinted in the third LP of mostly unreleased tracks in this expanded (Redux) edition, all delay-drenched and booming with bass.

Seefeel proselytised the limitless potential of the post-rock genre with Succour — and produced one of the 1990s’ greatest albums in the process.

Produs Nou / Anul aparitiei: 1995 / Reissue 2019

Tracklist:

A1 Meol

A2 Extract

B1 When Face Was Face

B2 Fracture

B3 Gatha

C1 Ruby-Ha

C2 Rupt

C3 Vex

D1 Cut

D2 Utreat

D3 Tempean

E1 As One

E2 As If

E3 As Well

E4 As Track

E5 As Link

E6 As Such

F1 Meol 2

F2 Rupt (Cut Mix)

F3 Fractions 2

F4 Meol 3

F5 Monastic

F6 Burned