Seam - The Problem with Me

While listening to The Problem with Me by Seam today, I realized that I had gone this whole time without ever mentioning it on this site. I am sure I’ve probably used a song or two here and there on past mixes, but other than that…nothing. It kind of surprised me in a way because it happens to be my favorite record by the band, and is quite up there on my favorite records of all time.

Seam in my eyes was one of those bands that pretty much defined 1990’s indie rock. They had the sound absolutely perfected and they wrote music with such haunting melodies that listening to them still makes the hair stand up on my arms whenever I put on their albums. They were such an amazing band that while they get their proper due here and there, they honestly couldn’t be talked about enough. While you can’t really go wrong with pretty much all of their albums, it’s always been The Problem with Me first. I think out of all their albums this one was probably the most emotionally charged and/or devastating, which is probably why I tend to gravitate towards it more. Hearing singer Sooyoung Park lay practically everything out there with such an honest outpouring of emotion through the entire album is incredibly satisfying.

While The Problem with Me runs the gamut of being bleak to hopeful, it doesn’t hamper it all from being an incredibly rock driven and powerful record. With most songs hitting such a climactic point, it’s one of the few albums that I’ll go back and immediately repeat a song to just to experience that feeling of build up all over again. If the The Problem with Me isn’t considered one of the best albums of the 90’s, then there must be a lot of good albums that I am not hearing.

Seam – Bunch [MP3]
Seam – Stage 2000 [MP3]
Seam – Something’s Burning [MP3]

For anyone that doesn’t own this album by now, then freaking do it. Get it at Amazon, or wherever you must.