Sounds like James Blake, says a friend entering my room in which Seekae’s The Worry is playing. The often sparse electro/post-dubstep arrangements certainly invite the comparison, the singing helps, too. But the band goes for a bigger and fuller sound than Blake does - not by much, but still. The etymology of ‘Seekae’ makes the band seem a bit nerdy: standing for ‘CK’, short for ‘Commander Keen’, a 90s PC Game (that i played extensively).
Is it computer-music? ‘We made a record with a computer, that sounds like a band’, Seekae told the guardian. Ok so nothing out of the ordinary these days in that respect. To me this fall-tinged record sounds less like JB and more like Twin Shadow, though the tracks are acoustically less eventful and follow a course rather than maximizing things like TS does on his second album (thereby ruining a great part of his appeal, but that’s another story).
The singing is husky and subdued and though I didn’t give the lyrics too much attention it all seems quite angsty. Death and destruction, desolation, or just the good old ‘Worry"? Which brings me to the title track, a catchy highlight with big rhythms like they supposedly sounded like in the mid 80s, high toms and swirling, but paired with subtle gnawing and grinding sounds that warn you not to fly too high!
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehs6vQTFPoA]
The second standout for me is the more straightforward ‘Boys’
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsaMAHY_mvU]
by Markus Tschann