British electronic collective Seefeel reappeared after a 13-year hiatus with two mini-albums in 2024 and now present Sol.hz, their first full-length release since the 2011 self-titled LP. The group’s claim to notoriety is as one of the first guitar-based groups signed to the fabled British electronic label Warp, with their 1995 sophomore album Succour. Rock listeners may first have encountered them on the 1993 debut Quique, where the band pushed dream pop beyond guitar rock conventions by dismantling structures that Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine had just about held in place. Instead, Seefeel built their sound around extended tracks of hypnotically recurring motifs, rewiring traditional instrumentation such as strummed guitars and a full drum kit into…
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Seefeel‘s take on electronic music is not quite like any other outfit’s, and the particularities of their sound were apparent from their earliest output. While their 1993 debut full-length, Quique, is a master stroke of their brand of dubby, dreamy underwater shoegaze shot through with deep bass, the material that made it to several of their EPs that same year is just as powerful. Enter Pure, Impure, an EP that captured three stray tracks of Seefeel’s unique rhythmic and hypnotic dreamscaping, as well as some remixes. “Plainsong” is an upbeat and sprightly tune with the vocals buried deep in the mix, hitting the same stride as some of the more drum machine-reliant tracks on My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless, and the nearly 11-minute-long “Minky Starshine” evolves…