Reply to: RE>WIRED seefeel review
I have to agree. They create really nice textures, but over all, I yawn and fall
to sleep. For music to turn me on, it has to take me somewhere. Music should be
a fantastic voyage through sound and texture, not a 4bar textural loop over and
over. Its the difference between taking a train cross-country and taking a cab
'round the block 10 times..
nuf sed.
jeff taylor
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Date: 5/17/94 5:39 PM
To: Jeff Taylor
From: John Sweeney
hey there-
I just got the new WIRED today (June 94, not the zippie one =) and in the
back in i think the "Street Cred" section they had a review of Quique.
Thought all you would be interested....
Seefeel's thick compositions bombard the listener with repetition in the
hope of tapping into some primal instinct, yet they ultimately fail.
Strip away the excessive layers of judicious echo and delay, and each
track consists merely of a few chords repeated in loop after relentless
loop. A startling homogeneity of tiresome sounds accumulates over a
lifeless drum track and the occaisonal swoop of Sarah Peacock's barely
perceptible voice. Put simply, Seefeel shows genre-bending potential but
ultimately smothers it under the short-lived novelty of noise processing.
-Stephen Reese
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john sweeney
jds@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu
binary sound(imprints)