Seeland Announce New Album “How To Live” and Release First Single

SEELAND ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM HOW TO LIVE AND RELEASE FIRST SINGLE “LOCAL PARK”

UK trio Seeland are excited to announce their second album How to Live, out October 26 on LOAF Recordings. The band has released “Local Park” (available for posting), the first single off of their sophomore effort. They are also offering a full album stream in exchange for an email address via an embeddable widget (embed code below).

“Local Park”, a gorgeous summer stroll of a tune, celebrates the Great British (and, frankly, universal) tradition of heading straight for the closest patch of grass as soon as the sun appears, in order to soak up the precious rays so rarely seen on their often grey isle. Instantly familiar in the tradition of The Kinks or The Small Faces and yet decidedly ‘other’ in it’s musical vision, “Local Park” is as uplifting as the sun and optimistic as summer itself, the audio equivalent of strawberries and cream.

Moving away from the heavy drum machine dominated sound of their debut, How To Live is an altogether creamier confection. There are still chugging Neu grooves and soft focus psychedelic electronics, but the sound is now more all encompassing, more organic, like slipping into a hot tub with a glass of homemade lemonade. Recorded using a wide variety of vintage synths and old analogue equipment, each sound has been painstakingly passed through numerous pre-amps and filters to create what can only be described as the Seeland sound.

Seeland are Timothy Felton, Billy Bainbridge and Neil McAuley, sonic pioneers associated with Birmingham’s ‘Retro Futurist Electronic Scene’. The band was formed when Tim and Billy left their respective bands (Broadcast and Plone) and started writing songs together that could express the sounds of their minds.