The World
by Seeming
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ridd-pr
MAGNIFICENT. This is an absolute storm that is very deserving of its huge-scale title.
Favorite track: Any Other World.
moonfall666
moonfall666
Naming this album after something as grand as the world sets such high expectations, but in my opinion it meets them in every way. The World is a love song to the world we live in, full of passion and of despair and anguish. It's such a diverse yet cohesive album, with not a single song wasted. Yet another banger from Seeming that I will be listening on repeat for years to come.
Favorite track: Any Other World.
severinmnothing
severinmnothing
The World sets out into a distinctly new direction befitting a year filled with struggle and communal reflection
Favorite track: Winterlight.
Ochre Augur
Emily Reed
Worldburners
Michael McConnell
Laura
August
sorcyress
Molly Noise
linzomatic
Tom Swinnen
Charlotte
sallybdash
April Elizabeth
james lile
strangerthanblue
ooboberto
dj ellafine
theogerome
Soror604
Rob Jefferson
Sabrina Caine
Rae K
Taphophilic
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Rorie
Transmission Control & The Starliner
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vivian
the_7_zero_niner
Doodle
Eric Gottesman
annechka
Jason Charles
Cavalierrs
SarahLenore
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archon
rustryu
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Maztrax
automaton
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Audra Williams
Dulcamara
Bruce Lord
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Emanate
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geitungur akureyrar
Astrid Deurloo
TheAverageTeddzy
Papa Phantom
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SYNTHPHONIC
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256 Pi / The Wonky Angle
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A Failure of Imagination
03:22
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A Failure of Imagination
Scatter all our ashes round the apple tree
‘Cause at the end of fantasy there has to be a sign
It’s not life on other planets
That’s only life—that’s only planets
And all our sanity is madness redefined
And this is a love song
Even if it doesn’t sound like one
‘Cause there’s a lot of strange love
That doesn’t fit into the way love’s done
And there’s a lot of shadows
All hiding from the eye of the sun
And there’s a lot of love under pressure
And under the gun
But I can make a million
I can make a promise
I can lead a rebellion
And I can call it progress
But I don’t know what I don’t know is (left out of the equation / lost in translation)
Is that a failure of the world
Or a failure of imagination?
Just behind the camera
Someone’s zooming out to capture
All that’s moving only inches out of view
I will raise up high the hammer
I will torque and I’ll go smashing
I will tear the secret studio in two
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Heart of Hunger
04:24
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Heart of Hunger
Selling tickets home to Eden
Not a conman but a mark
Did it well ‘cause I believed it
It was easy in the dark
Said: Have you heard of something different?
Have you heard of somewhere else
In the sermon of the crickets
In the song of meadowlark?
I awoke the heart of hunger
Yeah I spoke her truest name
She’s got everybody’s number
And every number is the same
I awoke the heart of hunger
If you listen you will hear
Beating long and low as thunder
Sings the arrow of the hunter
To the ribcage of the deer
On the wind a seed of longing
Into riddles it was thrown
That was you before your body
And the cotton on your bones
That was me and that was Eden
That was Earth before the Earth
Now hurry up—the boat is leaving
Ticket says we’re going home
But is it just the heart of hunger?
Is it just a losing game?
She’s got everybody’s number
And every number is the same
I awoke the heart of hunger
If you listen you will hear
Beating long and low as thunder
Sings the arrow of the hunter
To the ribcage of the deer
Will you wake the heart of hunger?
Will you ask if Eden’s here?
In the moment you go under
Will the oldest word of wonder
Make your hunger disappear?
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Zebra Tramples Horse Trainer
I am an animal
Antimechanical
In league with the sky
Lay waste the chariot
No time for burial
Malarial flies
Love, they got you wrong
They couldn't see
That you belong
Beyond the radical
With fire, fire in your eyes
I am an animal
Beautiful botanical
No how and no why
I am the rite of spring
Lay waste the bridling
That covers the stripes
Love, they got me snared
And everyone on earth
Is scared
Well okay, but I am an animal
With fire, fire in my eyes
And everybody loves a surprise:
Zebra tramples horse trainer
I am an animal
And incompatible
And ungrammatical
And we dismantle all
And all is flammable
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Tomorrow Place
04:03
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Tomorrow Place
Sneak out from under the sky
Watch it fall behind you like a curtain
Breathe into your cold hands
The steam expands fresh and uncertain
When the blackbird drums the morning
Forget your hundred stories before
Where you tried and tried to disappear
But never quite found the door out
And you won’t have to be brave
And you won’t have to be human
In the tomorrow place where’s winter’s always blooming
And you won’t have to wake
And you won’t have to keep moving
In the tomorrow place
Do you hear the hydra sing?
Are you shelterless and deep?
Are the colors nameless?
When you curl up in a bluebell to sleep?
And when the blackbird hunts the morning
And makes a banquet of its prey
You’re a cavern, you’re a dream
The reason for the scream
You are centuries from yesterday
It’s always tomorrow
Somewhere
And it’s just a whisper away
It’s just beyond illusion
The tomorrow place where’s winter’s always blooming
The snowfall and the snake
The trigger of truest undoing
In the tomorrow place
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Shackleton
03:34
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Shackleton
On the empty frozen field
When the sun comes out
All will be revealed
When the winter melts
And the land turns into something else
We’re standing on a miracle
I’ve been under the ice
Under thick edelweiss
Black and violet and pink
Heaven’s not what you think
I got south past the pole
I got out of control
I got out of my cage
It’s the birth of the age
Will you find it too?
I just want the best for you
The miracle’s hunting for you
And it’s getting warmer
Summer is a’comin’ in
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Any Other World
03:52
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Any Other World
I wish that you could see the dream that I had
Where you were the bay full of turtles and whales
And I was the moon
I’d give up daylight to be with you like that
And somewhere in the mist that’s between us
We’d kiss and commune
And I would come back to you,
I’d come back to you with a whisper
If this world were any other world
Bind my fate to you
I would run straight to you till my feet blistered
But this world is this world
Is no dreamworld
It’s a shiver, a whimper, a stone
Wish I could see into the dreams that you dream
Where we’re both made of stars and kimonos and claws
And we speak without words
And could it be last night our dreams were the same?
I’ll send mine with the spring
Find yours on the wing of the birds
And I would come back to you,
I’d come back to you with a whisper
If this world were any other world
I would call to you
God, I would crawl to you till my hands withered
But this world is this world
It’s a pistol, a trigger
A desert in winter—no seas and no rivers
It keeps getting bigger
It spirals and spirals and splinters
I would come back to you
I’d come back to you with a heartbeat
If this world were any other world
So I’ll dream of you
And I’ll scream to you I am so sorry
But this world is this world
It’s no dreamworld
Quelque part
Il existe un monde meilleur
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Nova
04:20
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Nova
A night so dark the night cannot be found
The hunger eats the host and drinks the mouth
A diamond larger than the mine
A god the god of deicide
A sound so loud it shakes apart the sound
The cave is everything the cave is not
Its memory filled with all that it forgot
A dream so real it takes your place
Beauty so ripe it cracks the face
The tragedy knows nothing of the plot
A night so long it dies before it’s passed
A scar more massive than my body mass
A moon bigger than the sky
A tear that drowns away my eye
The way I and cry and cry until I laugh
I’m gonna break out of my skin
I am more than the world I’m in
I’m gonna break out of my skin
Gimme a rupture from above
Gimme the throes and spangles of
An apocalypse of love
I’m gonna break out of my skin
I am more than the pain I’m in
No more waiting—it begins
Call it exponential growth
Call it cancer
Call it ghosts
I am neither
I am both
And the mountain’s underneath my feet
And my feet give way to blistering
And the mountain’s rolling down itself
And I’m stepping into mystery
And the wave wipes out the ocean
And my heart beats through my chest
Till the law forbids the word of law
And silence does the rest
I’m gonna break out of my skin
I am more than the world
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Grindshow
04:37
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Grindshow
Come find me in the ozone
And the smoke rising above Rome
Come find me where the sun shone
At the grindshow hailing the unknown
‘Cause I’m not about to run home
At the first sight of conundrum
So come find me with your mind blown
At the grindshow
Still I dream of the jungle
Still I jab at the trouble
I remember we huddled
I remember the maxim:
Draw the attacks and hide in the tunnel
And I lost where I come from
But there’s one road I’m gone down
And I’m guided by a hum tone
Buzzing under the eyes
Editorializing all in a low drone
When the veil is thin
You can jump right in
You can drop your guard
Take it on the chin
Well I know it’s hard
Living on the fringe
But pick a card, any card
And the trick begins
And I’m marching with a tin drum
I am only a symptom
I am one of a billion
With a brutal scrawl on the cavern wall
Of the beast we split from
Don’t say I didn’t warn you
Don’t say I didn’t mourn you
I remember what formed you
I remember the landscape
And the exact shape that you were born to
Come find me in the ozone
I am in the air now
I am in the ocean
Come alive again from the cryofreeze under ice
Again unfrozen
When there’s nowhere to run home
When you’re unhomed
When your high hopes go
Find the other side of this grindshow
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Spiral
04:02
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Spiral
Spiral turn and twist
The turbine, the nautilus, the feedback
And the now within forever
The spiral doesn’t care
She’s infinitely unaware
And every word has always been surrender
But twenty miles from the beach
Still you’re practicing a speech into the mirror
Knowing she’ll never hear it
And your see your clock reversed
Counterclockwise, blessed and cursed
And now you belong to the spiral universe
I wanna see what’s inside
Even if it means ruining my eyes
I wanna see the black hole shine
Even if it means ruining my eyes
Spiral round and round
To chew our names and numbers down
No model and no math can trace her orbit
The spiral spins a love
That laughs away the efforts
Of the sane and the psychotic to record it
And twenty captains on the sea
And twenty Stanford PhDs who’ve seen the whirlpool
Haven’t gotten word through
They behold their god reversed
Counterclockwise, unrehearsed
There in the twenty-first long century
Of the spiral universe
I’m gonna be geometry’s bride
Even if it means ruining my eyes
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I have done what must be done
I have cleared a strange new path
So in this hour before the sun and the bloody aftermath
Let me hold to you
Let me hold to you
For the world will soon awake
But until they do
Let me hold to you
In this dawn about to break
They will come with fire and blade
They will summon me on high
I will meet them in the glade
But until we hear their cry
Let me hold to you
Let me hold to you
We are Eden and the snake
When the Earth is new
Let me hold to you
In this dawn about to break
I don’t miss the days before
‘Cause the wheel was always cracked
But my prison nights are warm
With the dream where I come back
And I hold to you
And I hold to you
In the cradle of the quake
Split the land in two
Still I hold to you
In this dawn about to break
Let me hold to you
Let me hold to you
For the world will soon awake
But until they do
You will hold me too
In this world about to break
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11. |
Winterlight
04:45
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Winterlight
End of the winterlight
I was twelve years old the December night I fell through the ice
An animal from my bones that I’d never known
Took ahold my mind
Gave me real eyes
It was real life
She said run for the fire
And they pulled me out
Said run through the trees
Don’t go thinking about
That freeze at the end of the winter light
This is real life
End of the winterlight
And the stars went quiet
There were no more jokes about suicide
It’s the deal I strike
Inside-out and amplified
All my favorite songs showed another side
To this beast of mine with her real eyes
You and I: we still gotta dance, still gotta fuck
But when the night ends, our faces all made up
We’ll decide in the fight-or-flight
How to feel like this is real life
This is real
End of the winterlight
Now the dream’s my twenty-four-seven knife
It’s a blade of ice pushing slow into real life
I watch you sound asleep
It’s Christmas eve and the glowing ghost hums a lullaby
Into real life
So we still gotta laugh, still gotta joke
And I’m still wearing black
Sstill got a smoke machine
But since I fell through the ice
No smoke can hide the real everything
Run for the fire with fire on your wing
Wing with the animals siring sun and spring
At the end of the winter light
This is real life
Look through your real eyes
Look through them
This is myth and this is love
This is fiction
This is nothing
This is feeling
It’s enough all because
Since the end of the winterlight
I stopped minding the border of what’s pantomime
And what’s real life
And it feels right
This is real life
This is real
Wait
What was that animal?
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about
The world will not change itself, says Seeming's fourth album. Then it gets to business. Brass and strings blare a warning siren. Drums roll like thunder behind songs of ruin, hunger, and queer strains of love. Unflinchingly antifascist and soaringly tuneful in spite of itself, The World is a diary of collapse and defiance. Darkwave in a new, urgent key.
Standout singles include "A Failure of Imagination," "Grindshow," and the stomper "Zebra Tramples Horse Trainer." The record's postgothic pop is textured and insistent, less about escape than setting your own strange terms of survival.
Signed to Artoffact Records and based in Ithaca, NY, Seeming has built a reputation for rich songcraft and stark aesthetics.
Cover art by Dragan Bibin.
Standout singles include "A Failure of Imagination," "Grindshow," and the stomper "Zebra Tramples Horse Trainer." The record's postgothic pop is textured and insistent, less about escape than setting your own strange terms of survival.
Signed to Artoffact Records and based in Ithaca, NY, Seeming has built a reputation for rich songcraft and stark aesthetics.
Cover art by Dragan Bibin.
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released December 5, 2025
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