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Classic Album Review: Seachange | Lay Of The Land

Epic guitar maelstroms, primal power & post-punk hooks straight from Nottingham.

This came out in 2004 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):

 


If Sonic Youth always played in tune, wrote hooky choruses, worshipped even harder at The Stooges’ altar and recruited the singer from Psychedelic Furs, they’d be Nottingham’s Seachange — and their debut CD would probably sound like this artfully charged amalgam of epic guitar maelstroms, primal power and post-punk hooks.