(Ch-Vox) Redux

Seefeel

SKU: WARPLP325

Barcode: 0801061032517

22.00 £22.00
  • Genre: Rock And Pop
  • Label: Warp
  • Released Date: 14th May 2021
  • Buying Format:
    2LP Gatefold Sleeve

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Seefeel’s third studio album was recorded for Richard D James and Grant Wilson-Claridge’s Rephlex label, as as a return favour for two remixes Aphex Twin (a huge fan of the group) did in their Too Pure period. This is the first time it has been available on vinyl since 1996 and adds an extra LP of bonus material, mastered from original DAT transfers by Stefan Betke aka Pole. Comes housed in a new gatefold sleeve by the Designers Republic.

“Mark Clifford and his mates have moved through labels like Astralwerks and Warp before landing at the front door of the Richard James label Rephlex, and along the way they have scattered some wonderful pearls. For (CH-VOX), it's an especially lush match of aesthetics — sort of a condensed version of the Aphex Twin landmark record, Selected Ambient Works II.

Picking up at the tail end of Seefeel's last album, Succour, we once again hear "Utreat," a dark meditation of phrases that makes Darren Seymour's bass sound like an electric piano, or is it Clifford's electric piano that sounds like a bass? Sarah Peacock's dreamy vocals hover almost out of earshot, and possibly her guitar is plugged in somewhere, too.

It's difficult to say with many of their songs what instrument we're hearing, since treatments and effects play such a major role in production. The song "E-HIX2" breathes like a cluster of bleak skyscrapers with an extremely ambient take on feedback, and the title cut, "CH-VOX," is stark, patient, and ominous — an abandoned submarine frozen in ice. "Hive" (with wonderful vocal loop effects) has Clifford revisiting his somewhat limited palette of percussion — a piece that teeters between beauty and agitation, and an unfortunate weak spot for the album. The album closes with "Net," which is nothing short of masterpiece — a journey, a drive through wet streets at midnight, and a finale so captivating you'll want to hear it twice — somewhat postponing the disappointment that the album is only 33 minutes long.”

– Keir Langley, All Music

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Track Listings

A1. Utreat (Complete)
A2. E-hix²
A3. Ch-vox

B1. Hive
B2. Ashdecon
B3. Net

C1. E-hix 5
C2. E-hix 4
C3. Evio

D1. Avatar
D2. E-hix 3
D3. Ashime

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