Pace Is Glacial

Seam | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 29, 1998)
• Original Release Date: September 29, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Touch & Go Records
• ASIN: B000009T1T
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #322,216 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Super, August 19, 2001

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Justin Baumgartner - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pace Is Glacial (Audio CD)

The Pace Is Glacial is no match for the awesome The Problem With Me, but still a slightly-above average Seam album blows away most music I hear these days. Not every track on this album works, but when it does work, it gets it all right. Of particular note are "Get Higher", probably the most upbeat song on here, and "Inching Towards Juarez", a great quiet number that ever-so-slowly builds up its intensity. I've noticed on this album a move towards a more minimalist, quiet sound than in the past. But instead of losing their identity or getting boring, Seam is still, well, Seam. And while it often seems quite simple on the surface, there's more to it than you think. Not my favorite, but the more I play this album, the more I like it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars stirring, August 26, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Pace Is Glacial (Audio CD)

its the best album i've bought in the last year. seam isn't the kind of band where you listen to one of their songs once and you get hooked (unless you've seen them live). especially if you haven't been very invested in the indie rock scene, as i notice many seam buyers are kinda outside the circle of indie rock. well, this is a good place to start. favorite tracks of mine include include, "little chang, big city", "get higher", "intifada driving school", "nisei fight song", and "the prizefighters" (sup with the violence theme?). all excellent. buy this album. listen to it a couple times. listen to the lyrics. sooyoung is this incredibly gifted writer/singer, a genius/nerd/punk/intellectual's rebel with a telecaster in a rock band. give him a chance, and he'll blow you away.

the only reason i'm giving it four stars instead of five is because that would diminish how much i value their previous masterpiece, "are you driving me crazy". this album is less low-fi. its more polished. "pace is glacial", ironically, kinda picks up the pace from the last album. aydmc really defined the genre of "slowcore" in post-punk music. but the last album was more deeply personal for sooyoung, and it shows. this album gets personal as well, but in a far less direct way. its sooyoung singing through the eyes of another person, rather than himself, which he does magnificently mind you, but it cannot grasp the intense personal nature of aydmc. both "aydmc" and "pace is glacial" are must have albums.

all in all, buy this album. buy it right now.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Album, November 20, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Pace Is Glacial (Audio CD)

This is my first experience with Seam but it certainly will not be my last. The album begins and ends with a single guitar but is filled in between with sonic texturing and beautiful melodies. This and Yo La Tengo's latest are two of the best albums I've had the pleasure of listening to this year.