- Seekae’s marketing has been working on me. Signing to dance label Future Classic and then releasing a teaser single, constantly threatening to break out into a dancefloor banger, but just never...quite...getting...auuggh! Never quite getting there! So, will they won’t they?! It has piqued my interest. If you think about it, Seekae have been on a slow but consistent march of evolution, over the course of their career. It isn’t doing them too much on an injustice to say that every step has been one further into the world of electronics. They’d already been signposting a dancefloor move with a 12” off the back of their previous album +Dome, featuring some club cuts and dance remixes. With all of that in mind I was quite keen to see them at Brisbane’s Oh Hello! They played for just an hour in front of what I thought was a surprisingly strong crowd. I think some of them were just rocking along to Oh Hello! rather than coming out to see Seekae, particularly the girls sprouting fairy wings just next to me. Still there were some ardent fans in the packed crowd. Packed it was, I got jostled around all over the shop and every time I ducked out of the way of some ten foot tall fella barging through the crowd and returned my attention to the band, Seekae seemed to be doing something different. There was plenty of old stuff to give a nice familiar grounding, but, as you might expect, plenty of dancier fair. A lot of it seemed to be a logical progression for them, taking their mid-tempo beats and interesting electronics and progessing to the same sort of sounds you’d have heard out of Gold Panda or Fourtet. It wasn’t even really a new development, I guess, there was just more of it. The cold-wavish vocals, that’s new, yeah? A bit of baritone moaning to make things seem a bit more like Cold Cave. All the tricks they’d previously learned were on display, of course: ambient, noise and idm. I’m still not entirely certain what the next album is going to be like. I suppose it doesn’t matter, because, most of all, I enjoyed myself. Seekae, for all their experimentations and fiddling with the formula, matched with a fairly static stage show, still entertain my ears, whenever I run into them. in the end, that’s all that matters.

- Chris Cobcroft.