#postgothic

After five years' silence, Seeming is releasing a new album today, simply called The World. Lit up with violins, trumpets, and cellos, it's a striking LP of heavy darkwave, equal parts disillusionment and hope, defiance and hunger.

Our previous collections have made best-of lists at Bandcamp and Synthpop Fanatic, and were awarded Album of the Year by IDieYouDie and A Model of Control. We think this new LP is a worthy followup.

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You can stream it too on your favorite sites.

The album is released on Artoffact Records, with cover art by the remarkable Serbian painter Dragan Bibin. (And today is Bandcamp Friday, when 100% of goes directly to the artists. If you’ve been meaning to support Seeming's work—including the previous albums—now's the day to do it.)

We've already released a few singles: A Failure of Imagination, Grindshow, Zebra Tramples Horse Trainer, Assassin's Lovesong. Our personal favorites on the album are album tracks: Heart of Hunger, Shackleton, and Winterlight. Check them out—they remind us of Madness & Extinction and maybe even ThouShaltNot’s The White Beyond. (Yes, Aaron is still playing drums on this record too.)

And hey, if you’ve made it this far, thank you. However you found our music, we’re so grateful for your support. It means more than you know. (If you want even more of a connection, sign up for Alex’s Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/salexanderreed, where you’ll find 800 posts, including a ton of unreleased songs, fiction, poetry, mixtapes, journalism, and outtake scholarship from his books on industrial music and Laurie Anderson.)

The world is wild, and it’s time for us to get loud together.

𝑺𝒖𝒏𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏 𝒑𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆. 𝑴𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑵𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔' 𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔; 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒖𝒏𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒎 𝒚𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒏𝒔.

𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝟏𝟖𝟎𝟎𝐬 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐦𝐬 𝐓𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐝, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐮𝐩𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐄𝐝𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐮 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭𝐬' 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬 (𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬). 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐇𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬-𝐚𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝟓𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐨, 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐥𝐞𝐟𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐚 𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐥𝐬. 𝐘𝐞𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬. 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞, 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐮𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭.

"Grindshow" is the lead single from Seeming's first album in five years. Sung from the hurricane's eye, the song finds wily strength in flexibility: "When the veil is thin, you can jump right in." Shapeshifting atop slinky rhumba drums, singer Alex Reed whispers and belts, conjuring Grace Jones, Blixa Bargeld, and Depeche Mode. "Grindshow" plays a queer soundtrack for dancing, kissing, or industrial sabotage. Surrender to this new turn from one of dark music's best-kept secrets.

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SEEMING: “STRANGER (feat. SAMMUS)”

In a week we’ll release the our second album, SOL: A Self-Banishment Ritual, but in the meantime, here’s its companion EP, called FACELESS.  

If you want hymns to Artemis, screeds of secession, and classic synthpop, go crazy.