The Seeds Vampire / Butterfly Child

To many, the Seeds edgy dissonant sounds and relentless fuzz-fuelled drive, tinged with flights of psychedelic fancy, makes them the quintessential exponent of the garage rock genre. For decades, the name The Seeds was most closely identified with the activities of their eccentric vocalist, the late Sky Saxon, but the first, path-finding line-up was always a collaboration, the musical director of which was, without a doubt, keyboard whiz Daryl Hooper. Now, in the 2020s, as the only surviving original Seed, Daryl has reclaimed his birthright with a new and powerful set of Seeds. The guitars fizz and throb, the drums grind and groove, and Hooper's piano and organ parts remain as spookily compelling as ever. Paul Kopf delivers a performance one hundred percent in keeping with the energy and verve that is The Seeds’ signature. Careful to undertake writing and recording of new material with the same spirit that made the original Seeds discs so evocative, ‘Vampire’ and ‘Butterfly Child’ aspire to inspire rather than revive. Having worked extensively on the Seeds’ back catalogue as well as writing/producing the rockumentary The Seeds: Pushin’ Too Hard, Alec Palao oversaw the new single at SGV Studios in Alhamabra using the same methods that had worked for the original band in their heyday: recording live to analog tape with only a minimum of overdubs, in order to preserve the dynamics so often lacking from modern productions