Seefeel

(This article’s English version was produced with AI-assisted translation)

Released on Warp, "Sol.Hz" is Seefeel’s first album after fifteen years away from the long-playing format. The title literally translates as sun plus electricity, yet retains the hazy ambiguity that lies at the core of the group’s return: a surreal drift of stretched chords and elusive harmonies rooted in shoegaze. The album is arranged like high-pressure ambient music, and on the right sound system its subterranean basslines emerge to create a suffocating, altered atmosphere. The true protagonist, however, is the dub-inflected percussive core, carving through the low and mid frequencies with surgical precision; a presence that grows increasingly abrasive from track to track.

The hits appear fragmented, almost accidental; when they surface, they destabilise. Over this irregular pulse move Mark Clifford’s synthetic architectures, Sarah Peacock’s candid voice and her processed guitars. The synthesizers oscillate between multiple microclimates: a nod to the IDM tradition that made them pioneers and a focus on atmosphere, whether cathartic or enigmatic, rather than defined melody. Peacock’s guitar moves between feedback and effects that sublimate both the airy and the claustrophobic, while her vocals proceed in fits and starts, giving way to the instrument and its reverberations.

Compared to their earlier work, "Sol.Hz" moves decisively within the slow pulse of ambient dub. The album’s strength lies in striking a balance between a tectonic, physical sense of materiality and the ineffability of nocturnal impressions, whose intensity accumulates through layering rather than linear progression. Within this dense, aquatic landscape, "Falling First" stands out with its light, ascetic sequence, almost an ambient house piece unfolding over seismic tremors: one of the few luminous openings in a record that prefers shadow over light. Seefeel find their measure in a suspended, corporeal form of electronic music that, that never stops seeking new balances.

06/05/2026