“Seeing Double” is a brave sound experimentation by Guri Yeller that breaks the mold of the duo music style and creates a new work. For the first time, listeners find themselves getting into a new dimension of what they know to be a distinctive funk/rock group rather than a rock band doing funk. The track includes a degree of synthesizers being used that go beyond previous tracks; starting with an ethereal hum and transitioning into arpeggigo and rhythms. Harry Paterson’s typically complex and enigmatic voice floats on this pastoral track like fog over the moors and drawing the listener into its sounds.
The single doesn’t belong to type, but have elements from 80s synth-wave, 90s dream pop, electro-rock, alternative dance, shoegaze, and indie. Yet, it refuses to be marketed within a particular niche. It is lighter in comparison to shoegaze, less free compared to dream pop, and absolutely Guri Yeller. It becomes stable with mystery, fully saturated with chord progression in which some slight dissonance enters the action, making the track intriguing.
One does not have to look far to find this, as the camaraderie forged from ten years of friendship between Paterson and Bolton’s Matthew Banton hints at in their perfectly unified music. Banton is in charge of production establishing the context of the track but experimenting masterfully with saturated sounds. But there’s more and the vocal line finds additional ways to blur the edges of reality with Paterson’s falsetto weaving into the fabric of the texture.
What is significant and most interesting about ‘Seeing Double’ is that it can be heard like a cinema: it elicits visions of big sweeping sci-fi epics. Featuring glimmering keyboards, driving beat and ethereal voice, Guri Yeller offers you to immerse yourself into their constantly changing universe. This is a spiritual moment that makes you crave for more.
