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9.0
54914
9.0 |
PopMatters
This is a fun record, one whose effusiveness only reveals itself slowly, with repeat listens opening up more and more emotional layers hovering beneath its sleepy atmosphere
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8.5
52901
8.5 |
Beats Per Minute
Seabed is a luscious album that implores you to dive into the gorgeous depths of its sound and atmosphere
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8.5
52711
8.5 |
BBC
Seabed is better than rash assessments, warranting significant one-on-one time. This is exemplary electronic pop, tracing dance and RnB patterns but rarely running over them in anything permanent
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8.0
52712
8.0 |
Clash
Striking a balance between the restless lo-fi drench of ‘Sauna’, and the dreamy textures that emerged on ‘NYC Stuff And NYC Bags’, this is a beautifully blissed-out record
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8.0
52781
8.0 |
DIY
A fine album of rich, smooth, sunset-songs
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8.0
52886
8.0 |
musicOMH
For their opening full-length statement, they have created an album that forms its own bewitching character
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8.0
53033
8.0 |
The 405
It's a genuinely refreshing debut, one on which the band try to be many different things at once, but consistency is never an issue
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8.0
53775
8.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
One of the more promising debuts of 2013.
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7.9
52974
7.9 |
Bowlegs
A heartfelt and meticulous record that can hold its ground in any context
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7.8
52782
7.8 |
Pitchfork
Seabed's appeal after multiple listens is in its details
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6.0
52710
6.0 |
The Skinny
Vondelpark's long anticipated debut is an involving, inhabitable album that spooks as much as it soothes
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6.0
52735
6.0 |
Q
Its songs ebb and flow with floaty, submerged sonics. Print edition only
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6.0
52752
6.0 |
NME
Seabed could do with less mopiness
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6.0
53167
6.0 |
Loud And Quiet
Were ‘Seabed’ to have arrived alongside its contemporaries like James Blake and Teengirl Fantasy, and not two years late, it might’ve sounded far fresher
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4.0
53143
4.0 |
The Quietus
Seabed never really gets out of first gear
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3.0
52905
3.0 |
Fact
You’d think music located at point at which pop, R&B, indie and the cloud bit of cloud rap meet would sound zeitgeisty and hypermodern; instead, Seabed is the worst of all worlds
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