Actions And Indications＜初回生産限定盤＞

米ワシントン州タコマ出身のオルタナ/パンクロックバンド、シーウィードの名作をアナログ盤でリマスター・リイシュー!90年代に＜Sub Pop＞や＜Hollywood Records＞から作品を発表し、後にグリーン・デイ、バッド・レリジョン等と共にツアーを回り人気を集めたシーウィード。彼等が98年に＜Merge＞から発表した通算5作目となる『アクションズ・アンド・インディケーションズ』をリマスタリングしアナログ盤でリイシュー!

Give these guys some credit for sticking with the program. For one, they're from Seattle -- okay, Tacoma. And they're very screamy and fast and indecipherable, sort of a slightly less impatient Alice In Chains with a very hip low sincerity factor. They played D.I.Y. with the Sub Pop label for their first three records, went ambitiously astray by signing with Hollywood Records (for the deeply off-track Spanaway), then did the cool right thing by returning to indie Merge. Actions and Indications is all proper punk roots with too much guitar and fearsome early-'80s vocalizing, thanks to fretblazers Wade Neal and Clint Werner, and singer Aaron Stauffer. "Antilyrical" is exactly that, and "Thru the Window" has exactly four perfect David Bowie moments, not that it would necessarily please the band to know that. "Warsaw" is a classically anxious grunge tune, as is "Against the Sky," where you can't make out a thing, lyrically speaking. So the question is: if Seaweed has all the perfect feist and punkambulation, why is it so...ho-hum? One of the great mysteries of superloud, well-intended garage. ~ Becky Byrkit