With A New Video SEIMS Show Us That “Elegance Over Confidence” Is Cool!

Australian experimental rock project SEIMS revealed a brand new video for their first single Elegance Over Confidence from new album Four today with a premiere via Everything Is Noise!

The brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Simeon Bartholomew, SEIMS has evolved into an explorational and formidable band over the course of several records. The new record showcases the band’s delicately crafted arrangements on tracks including the beguiling 65daysofstatic Wild Light era tinged post-math-rock of Elegance Over Confidence, the soaring modern post-rock of The Mountain’s Scream and the dark Stranger Things evoking electro-prog of Showdown Without A Victim.

About the new single and video Elegance Over Confidence Everything Is Noise notes: "The first half of this song is nothing short of scintillating and glorious. For real, it’s easily up there with the best music I’ve heard this year. The cinematic, heavily layered atmosphere that just oozes with a strong symphonic attitude of the first half is as magnificent as it gets. A swift turn is taken at half time, and we get a brilliant blend of rock that’s shining with exuberance in a very straightforward way."

SEIMS mastermind Simeon Bartholomew comments: "This piece is quite literal to the title. I've never been a fan of the athleticism that's associated with math-rock, and this is all about hiding simplicity within complexity for showmanship's sake. An ever-changing rotation of open-phrasing being talked over by a rotation of 9/8 5/8 viola, cello and piano movements. As we move through the passage of 14/8 over 4/4, we come out at Theme C - pure musical confidence in its single-mindedness - guitar and bass in Em 4/4 over a "four-to-the-floor" disco beat. You can't get more rudimentary than that."

Watch share: SEIMS - Elegance Over Confidence (Official Music Video) - YouTube

New album Four was written & produced by Simeon Bartholomew himself, engineered by Tim Carr (We Lost The Sea), mixed by Alex Wilson (sleepmakeswaves) & mastered by Jeff Lipton and Maria Rice. As well as Simeon performing bass, guitars, synths, piano & vocals himself, it also features blistering performances from Plini drummer Chris Allison, Kat Hunter & Susie Bishop on violins & Tangents/ FourPlay member Peter Hollo on cellos.

For the release of Four SEIMS have partnered with Australian labels Art As Catharsis and Bird’s Robe Records once again, as well as European vinyl label Dunk Records for the first time.

Simeon says: "I've always loved writing concept albums and after exploring the colour spectrum and its contributions and interactions with itself, it made me think about a similar idea in the verbal medium. Four was initially inspired by the Myer Briggs indicator of personalities. I always found it fascinating how words on paper can change inference, intent, or perspective purely by someone's speaking tone and demeanour, and also how it can be received or perceived based on your personality, context, and cognisance. This album is all about unintentionally misconstrued conversations - multiple voices / themes saying one thing, and being received or misinterpreted a very different way, for better or worse."