Seeland / Tomorrow Today

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Seeland was formed by Tim Felton (ex-Broadcast) and Billy Bainbridge (ex-Plone) in the winter of 2004/'05 amid the fallout from Birmingham's "Retro Futurist Electronic" scene--a group of musicians and artists inspired by space-age pop, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, legendary producer Joe Meek, and eccentric '60s library music.  Having previously released two singles for Stereolab's mighty Duophonic imprint, Seeland spent the last few years carefully crafting the contemporary psychedelic masterpiece that is Tomorrow Today.  In the same way that Ariel Pink creates something fresh while referencing the past, Felton and Bainbridge mix their love of the three-minute pop song with the sounds and tones of Travelogue-era Human League, Can, Scott Walker, or Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd; like Meek, the pair blends abstract electronics with toe-tapping pop tunes. The result is modern yet warm and unique; it stands alongside other psychedelic classics such as White Noise's An Electric Storm or The United States of America.   Take a trip to a place you know well but to which you have never been.

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