Artist: SEIMS
Title: V
Format: LP, CD, Digital
Label: Bird’s Robe Records/ dunk!records
Distribution: MGM
Genre: Cinematic Experimental Rock
Release Date: 10/10/2025
The brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Simeon Bartholomew, SEIMS has evolved into an explorational and formidable band over the course of several records, including their most recent release Four which saw them pick up a sizeable underground audience and launched them on tours around the world, including performances at ArcTanGent (UK), Dunk! Festival (Belgium) and supports for And So I Watch You From Afar (Northern Ireland), sleepmakeswaves (Australia) & Delta Sleep (UK).
The new record V expanded on themes explored on Four with exquisitely crafted arrangements of tracks ranging from complex odd-meter timing to standard rhythmic feels. Preoccupations picks up where Showdown Without A Victim left off, evoking 65daysofstatic’s Wild Light era mixed with Stranger Things. Chaos Within A Construct continues a similar vein, infused with the relentless energy of contemporaries like And So I Watch You From Afar, but blended with the clean tones and beguiling precision of a mid-west emo math rock band (or Delta Sleep, if you’re more that way inclined). But then you have tracks like the Rush-meets-Oasis-with-a-hint-of-Mobymelodic pop-prog of Forever The Optimist which maintains SEIMS unique ability to straddle parallel universes. It’s the perfection of the experimental side that is most appealing with SEIMS. These are sonic explorations, but conducted with compositional mastery by monster players and performers.
The album was written & produced by Simeon Bartholomew himself, engineered by Tim Carr (We Lost The Sea), mixed by Alex Wilson (sleepmakeswaves) & mastered by Jeff Lipton and Maria Rice at Peerless Mastering, Boston. As well as Simeon performing bass, guitars, synths, piano & vocals himself, it also features blistering performances from Plini drummer Chris Allison, Sam Sheumack (Fangz) on slide guitar, Mark Owen (We Lost The Sea) on guitar, Nataliya Lukich on violins, Monique Turner on violas, Tangents/FourPlay member Peter Hollo on cellos, Tom Botting (Scoredatura) on double basses, Paul Murchison on trumpet & flugelhorn & Luke Bartley on tuba and sousaphone.
For the release of V SEIMS have again partnered with Australian label Bird’s Robe and European vinyl label dunk!records.
Tracklist
1. Double Standards
2. Chaos Within A Construct
3. Forever The Optimist
4. Flowing Upstream
5. Preoccupations
6. Abandonment Is Expected
7. My Memories Retain Nothing
8. Ends Tether
9. A Moment Never Returned
Links
Official: https://seims.net
Bandcamp: https://seims.bandcamp.com
Instagram: https://instagram.com/SEIMSmusic
Facebook: https://facebook.com/seimsmusic
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@SEIMSmusic
Label: https://birdsrobe.com
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