Anyway, I'm going to get back on the horse with this thing, I've built up a few albums I need to talk about (if I can just find them, damn moving boxes that don't unpack themselves). Anyway, this came up while my iTunes was on random and quickly charged to the front of my thoughts. Seam's Are You Driving Me Crazy? is yet another album released during my college years that through many, many listening sessions at friends' apartments has truly become part of the soundtrack of my life. Fortunately it's also an incredible, if criminally under appreciated, album.The band began life in Chapel Hill, NC (with Mac from Superchunk on drums for their first release) and then moved to Chicago, much to my fortune, allowing me to see them live several times. Through their three album (and several singles) history, SooYoung Park is the only mainstay, but pretty much he's the band. It's hard to describe their music: slow, melodic, clear vocals, fuzzy guitars and great beats that get your head bobbing while drinking your Old Style on a ratty couch sitting outside your shitty apartment. Don't worry, you can appreciate it just as much while drinking a fresca in your new condo in Wicker Park.
Seam - Port of Charleston
Seam - Two is Enough
The band dissolved after their third record, The Pace is Glacial, which got a love of love from the indie press at the time, but I wasn't as fond of it, it was still very good though. The band dissolved a few years later. Park is now in a band called Ee, of which I know nothing, I may have to rectify that.
