Seam - Two Is Enough
(Are You Driving Me Crazy)

Seam were a band constantly struggling against themselves.  Unable to decide between making languid, melancholy sonic sculptures, and tearing shit apart like a plague of locusts, they tried to have it both ways.  Their quiet moments are infused with a sense of barely concealed tension, and their loud ones a savage joy but an almost instant pang of regret at letting themselves go.  It should be unbearable, but instead it’s utterly captivating.  It’s amazing they lasted as long as they did.