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Released
  
March 11, 1992

Headsparks (1992)
  
Kernel (1993)

Release date
  
11 March 1992

Genre
  
Slowcore

Length
  
33:21

Artist
  
Seam

Label
  
Homestead Records

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Recorded
  
August 1991 at Duck-Kee Studios in Raleigh, North Carolina

Similar
  
Seam albums, Slowcore albums

Headsparks is the debut studio album by the American indie rock band Seam, released on March 11, 1992 by Homestead Records.

Contents

Seam sky city


Recording and release

Headsparks was recorded by Jerry Kee at Duck-Kee Studios in Raleigh, North Carolina in August 1991. The album was released on March 11, 1992 by Homestead Records.

Critical reception

Headsparks was positively received by critics. Ned Raggett of AllMusic awarded the album a rating of four out of five stars and praised Sooyoung Park's singing and guitar playing, saying that the record features "a blend that's at once powerful, heartfelt, and anthemic almost in spite of itself." He considered "Sky City" and "Feather" to be the album's highlights. Victoria Wheeler of Spin also enjoyed the album, commenting that Seam "gets slow but not lethargic, sensitive but not whiny, persistent but not naging, confused but far from lost. Plus, the band pulls clever punches like pasting all that static-y haze over smartly tart, twangy, almost banjoish guitar."

Track listing

All tracks written by Seam unless otherwise noted.

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.

Songs

1Decatur3:20
2Grain2:52
3Sky City2:39

References

Headsparks Wikipedia