Bleep

Seefeel have a long legacy of bending sound into illusory shapes, evidenced when they opened the floodgates in 2019 and 2021 with live recordings, album reduxes, and treasure troves of rare gems. Seen as a rebirth with a reinvigorated lineup, their self-titled 2011 album was preceded by a 14 year gap and is followed by a similar chasm of time where the group’s sonic laboratory experimentations have grown even more protean than before. Everything Squared is Seefeel’s first new music in over a decade, a “one-off mini-album” of shifting sound sculptures viewed from exciting new angles.

Like their 1996 mini-album (Ch-Vox), Everything Squared completely strips and restructures what Seefeel had built up prior, dissolving the smashing drums and ripping electricity of their previous effort into something more primal, mythical, and spacious. ‘Sky Hooks’ fluctuates in a sub bass realm, a bubbling concoction with glimpses of vocals clipped and elasticated, teetering on the edge of split second rhythms. The hypnagogic serenity of flashes of ambience and chimes is torn by forking Tesla coil electronics, surging behind the track’s glassy exterior.

Where the guitars do make themselves known, they send shockwaves through the album’s rippling fabric with their gentle throttle. But Everything Squared is a largely alchemical affair, alive in the abstractness of unidentifiable sounds morphing through turbulence: the highly textural percussive elements of ‘Hooked Paw’ splashing and wobbling through labyrinthine dub-indebted environments, the rushes of soft noise, murmuring bass, and synth dots looping in quiet ecstasy on ‘Multifolds’. ‘Antiskeptic’ is a sputtering electrical storm, its solid slams and growling glitches offset by idyllic sparkles coating the track in a fine layer of glitter. Contrastive, simultaneously elegant and fractured, like the apocalyptic stomps of ‘End Of Here’ raining on reverent vocal manipulations and melody fizzling in the background.

Seefeel create another enticing world on Everything Squared with their sound evolving in fractal-like motions.