Spin (p.110) - "[With] a deep-focus blur wedding guitar loops to digital drift..."
Magnet (p.93) - "[T]he only Seefeel album to fully utilize pop-song structures and hooks, and most of the highly effected swirls are created by actual guitars."
CMJ (p.46) - "QUIQUE still sounds fresh. Sarah Peacock's nonsensical vocals on 'Plainsong' are otherworldly, and Mark Clifford's shimmering guitar tone sounds better than their followers'..."
Seefeel includes: Sarah Peacock (vocals); Mark Clifford (guitar, sequencing); Darren Seymour (bass); Justin Fletcher (percussion, programming).
Engineers: Adrian Harrow, Mark Clifford, Mark Van Hoen.
Seefeel: Sarah Peacock (vocals, guitar); Mark Clifford (guitar, sequencer); Daren Seymour (bass guitar); Justin Fletcher (percussion, programming).
Audio Remasterer: John Dent.
PURE-IMPURE EP, Seefeel's fearless nosedive into the dub currents of the ambient-techno vortex, inspired droves of lemming-like dream-popsters to follow in their footsteps. Seefeel, meanwhile, moved on to the much icier climes of SUCCOUR and [CH-VOX] before splintering into such projects as Scala, Disjecta, Aurobindo, and Sneakster.
QUIQUE submerses Seefeel in the little-fluffy-cloud-reflecting pool shared by such atmospheric architects as The Orb and 20th Century minimalists like Philip Glass and Steve Reich. The album is a Chinese puzzle-box of intertwined repetitions. Clifford's guitar phrases, processed into sighs, smears, and silvery streaks, are looped on an infinite reel. Fletcher and Clifford spin beats into eternal rhythmic spirals. Peacock's seraphic vocal wisps are whipped to soft-peaked froth in the Seefeel centrifuge or tauntingly revealed as loops are peeled away. "Plainsong" floats a solitary thought-fragment ("the one thing") through a mechanical maze of arches and rhythmic clockwork turnings. Seymour's deeply entrancing basslines steer such tracks as "Industrious" and "Filter Dub." Elsewhere, they're entirely absorbed by the ether.