SEEMING - "End Studies"

SEEMING: post-industrial visionary releases new single "End Studies" from upcoming Artoffact Records album "The Birdwatcher's Guide to Atrocity"

Seeming's new single "End Studies" is now streaming on all major platforms. 

"End Studies" appears on Seeming's upcoming, third album, The Birdwatcher's Guide to Atrocity, out August 21st on Artoffact Records.

Stream the single, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBd5V-x2v-k

Pre-order the album, here:
https://seeming.bandcamp.com/album/the-birdwatchers-guide-to-atrocity

Seeming mastermind Alex Reed describes the song: "'End Studies' questions all the assumptions, all the givens of our political reality. It suggests that the tighter we cling to an idea, the more we need to let go of it. Ruthlessly, it mows down patriarchy, inheritance, wealth, heteronormativity, and the self – all from the perspective of someone shaped by those very forces... The song imagines the limits of resilience, the breaking point of capitalist realism, the swift reversal of apparent limitlessness. It seeks to implode dictatorships of social and economic power, obliterating wealth and security, nature and tradition. Laws must only exist to topple power, and thus dismantle themselves. Behead first. Ask questions later... Also, you can dance to it. You can really fucking dance to it."

Menacing but vulnerable, furious but intimate, Seeming's post-industrial music is on the fringe of a new generation of heavy, dark, cerebral pop. The upcoming The Birdwatcher's Guide to Atrocity bears traces of elder visionaries, from Peter Gabriel and Roger Waters, to Diamanda Galás and Trent Reznor, and places Seeming in the company of modern-day darlings like Drab Majesty, Blanck Mass, and The Knife.

Led by New York-based author, theorist, and composer Alex Reed, Seeming broke out in 2014 with its Madness & Extinction LP, earning an Album of the Year award from darkwave tastemakers I Die: You Die. Sophomore album SOL: A Self-Banishment Ritual, released in 2017, was named Album of the Decade by UK blog A Model of Control.

With pounding drums, a dazzling palette of synth sounds, and Reed's voice exuding both confidence and humility, Seeming’s third album, The Birdwatcher's Guide to Atrocity, is another staunchly unique masterpiece – a breathtaking work from an artist who reinvents himself with every song.

Urgent in tone, grandiose in style, The Birdwatcher's Guide to Atrocity was co-produced with renowned avant-garde percussionist Sarah Hennies and features a guest vocal by Bill Drummond of legendary, inscrutable, UK duo The KLF – Drummond's first recorded vocal appearance in two decades.

Photo by Benjamin Torrey