Description
2021, 2×12″ compilation, Warp Records.
One of three Seefeel re-releases arriving together – shining light on the band’s mid-90s ‘Warp years’ – St/Fr/Sp is the only one of these that has really never existed in the past. Comprising two EPs, Starethrough and Fracture/Tied, the outing also brings in a very rare Autechre remix of ‘Spangle’, making for a package that’s got collector’s item written all over it. Musically, this is around the moment when Seefeel began to fully embrace the abstract and electronic, having just signed to Warp, and while the shoegaze of their past remains audible there are so many influences here plucked from beyond that spectrum. Embracing ambient, drone, rave chill-out, dub, acid, and psychedelia, this edition reflects two ends of that world – the blissful and largely astral first EP, and beat-driven and highly rhythmic second. – Juno
