Succour (Redux) (Vinyl) (Reissue)
Seefeel’s second studio album and their debut for Warp. This is the first time it has been available on vinyl since original release and adds an extra LP of bonus material, mastered from original DAT transfers by Stefan Betke aka Pole.
On Seefeel’s 1993 debut album, ‘Quique’, the British quartet navigated a course between shoegaze and ambient dub – but by 1995, the electronic undercurrents of their sound had carried them to a very different place. Maybe it was the influence of Aphex Twin, whose remixes had honed in on the clean-lined rhythmic skeleton lurking beneath the group’s atmospheric swirl.
While the album’s textures and titles are often reminiscent of Autechre’s ‘Amber’, which came out the year before on Warp, Seefeel never entirely cast off their post-rock roots; squint through the fog of songs like ‘Extract’ and ‘Cut’, and you can just barely pick out the familiar silhouettes of guitar, bass, drums, and microphone against the murk.