Seefeel
Sol.Hz
Warp
Legendary ’90s post-shoegazers Seefeel have been busy in recent years, kicking off the 2020s with a series of reissues before dropping the Everything Squared and Squared Roots mini-LPs in 2024. Sol.Hz, however, is the UK outfit’s first new album proper in 15 years.
Many genres have come and gone in that time, but the allure of the electronic home listening sound remains, kept alive by successive legions of stoner types intent on piping blissed-out dubbiness directly into your living room afterparty. So make some room on your sofa for Sol.Hz, which is described in the press blurb as the group’s sort-of “dub” album, a claim no doubt owing to the record’s sense of space, vapour trails of delay, and the dub-techno currents that rattle like skeleton bones on penultimate track “Until Now.”
Across nine abstract compositions—the first and last dissolving into beatless ambient drifters—Sarah Peacock’s gorgeous vocalizations simultaneously reach towards the heavens and bury themselves in the ground, pulling off an eerie loon call on “Falling First” and dove-like cooing on “Humidity Switch.” Meanwhile, Mark Clifford’s magically treated guitar spans the melodic spectrum from bright to murky on an album that feels both timeless and fresh, adding to the shapeshifting repertoire of a veteran group that’s still coming up with plenty of new ideas.
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