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The Problem with Me

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The Problem with Me
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 21, 1993
Recorded1993
StudioIdful, Chicago, Illinois
GenreIndie rock, slowcore, emo
Length36:57
LabelTouch and Go[1]
ProducerBrad Wood[2]
Seam chronology
Kernel
(1993)
The Problem with Me
(1993)
Are You Driving Me Crazy?
(1995)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
Chicago Tribune[4]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[5]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide[6]

The Problem with Me is the second album by American indie rock band Seam.[7][8] It was released in 1993 through Touch and Go Records.[9]

Critical reception

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Magnet wrote: "Nine blissfully hypnotic songs circled [Sooyoung] Park's sadness and anger, building up tension and releasing it in a crash of restrained guitars and half-shouted vocals."[10] Spin called the album "completely enveloping—a soft swirl of mood music with echoes of loneliness and confusion."[11]

Legacy

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Andrew Earles, in Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981–1996, wrote that the album "would be hugely influential on the first wave of '90s emo bands and related practitioners of semi-popular indie rock" throughout the rest of the decade.[2]

Track listing

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All tracks are written by Seam

No.TitleLength
1."Rafael"2:23
2."Bunch"3:26
3."Road to Madrid"5:59
4."Stage 2000"3:28
5."Sweet Pea"3:33
6."Dust and Turpentine"4:09
7."Something's Burning"4:07
8."The Wild Cat"5:24
9."Autopilot"4:28

Personnel

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Seam
  • Lexi Mitchell – bass guitar
  • Sooyoung Park – vocals, guitar
  • Bob Rising – drums
  • Craig White – guitar
Production and additional personnel

References

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  1. ^ "The Problem With Me | Seam | Touch and Go / Quarterstick Records". www.touchandgorecords.com.
  2. ^ a b Earles, Andrew (September 15, 2014). Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981–1996. Voyageur Press. ISBN 9780760346488 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Raggett, Ned. "The Problem with Me – Seam". AllMusic. Retrieved July 4, 2020.
  4. ^ Rothschild, David (November 21, 1993). "The City That Rocks". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved July 4, 2020.
  5. ^ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 7. MUZE. p. 323.
  6. ^ MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 991.
  7. ^ "Seam | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  8. ^ Buckley, Peter (January 1, 2003). The Rough Guide to Rock. Rough Guides. ISBN 9781843531050 – via Google Books.
  9. ^ Sheppard, Denise (2007). "Seam". Trouser Press. Retrieved March 23, 2013.
  10. ^ "Lost Classics: Seam "The Problem With Me"". March 20, 2009.
  11. ^ "Heavy Rotation". SPIN. SPIN Media LLC. November 1, 1993 – via Google Books.
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