Seefeel : Sol.Hz
The genres of intelligent dance music (IDM), ambient, and post-rock regularly cross-pollinate each other. They trade eerie synth and guitar washes; they can set percolating percussion to anywhere from 60 to 160 BPM. Infamously the first band with guitars signed to the Warp label, Seefeel from London have long hopped among sets and overlaps in this particular Venn diagram, their work equally as capable of generating hypnotic live shows as essential Aphex Twin remixes. Sol.Hz follows a pair of “mini-albums” released in 2024; it features some of the most minimal music they’ve ever made, and yet it’s some of the most engaging.
Sol.Hz is an intensely pastoral album, summoning the kind of visual and sonic flows found on countryside drives. The shimmering “Everydays” is one of a few that rests on a shuffling rhythm evoking softly rotating sprinklers. Songs like “Scrambler” fade into what could be the nighttime chirps of crickets and frogs. And the dissonance of a track like “Humidity Switch” holds the same kind of chaotic sway over our senses as might waves of grain and long grasses.
But we also hear clicks, atmospheres, and grooves clearly indebted to the technology at hand. It can be used to make one person sound like multitudes; on Sol.Hz Seefeel use it to obfuscate their own playing. For instance, are the flute sounds in “Behind the Seen” coming from vocalist Sarah Peacock, a guitar in the hands of Mark Clifford, or some unknown, unseen knob-twiddler? The world may never know. It will, however, recognize the head-nodding qualities of cuts such as “Ever No Way” and “Until Now,” even as those come with the subtlety of the smallest of creeks. If you loved Quique, you might swoon over this.
The band and the marketing behind them suggest that Sol.Hz is Seefeel’s attempt at a dub album. While you can definitely hear some of the elements of dub throughout it, especially spacious primary beats and cyclical, echoing production on main melodic lines, such a descriptor would also suggest that the songs here are (or feel like) modifications of other originals. Sol.Hz is beautifully unique, somehow formless and structured at the same time as starlings might murmurate. This is music in a plasma state, with the kind of energy found in the sun getting bent to sonic frequencies.
Label: Warp
Year: 2026
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