Seely was a dream pop

Dream pop

Dream pop is a subgenre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom in the mid-1980s, when bands like The Passions, Dif Juz, Lowlife and A.R. Kane began fusing post-punk and ethereal experiments with bittersweet pop melodies into dreamy, sensual soundscapes. The term was almost...

 band

Musical ensemble

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 from Atlanta, Georgia

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 formed in 1994. They released four album

Album

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s before disbanding in 2000.

History

Seely was founded by two architecture

Architecture

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 students, Steven Satterfield (vocals

Singing

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, guitar

Guitar

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) and Lori Scacco (guitar). The duo eventually added Joy Waters (vocals, bass

Bass guitar

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) and Eric Taylor (drums

Drum kit

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), and recorded their debut album, Parentha See, for the Atlanta-based Third Eye Records label

Record label

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 in 1995. Almost immediately, they signed with the British

England

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 record label Too Pure

Too Pure

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, becoming the first American band to do so. Their first release for Too Pure, Julie Only, was a re-recording of their first album, plus two newer tracks, produced by John McEntire

John McEntire

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 (of Tortoise

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 fame). It was received with some critical acclaim, with many reviewers comparing them to Stereolab

Stereolab

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, My Bloody Valentine, and Pram

Pram

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. They toured internationally, supporting bands like Yo La Tengo

Yo La Tengo

Yo La Tengo, sometimes abbreviated as YLT, is an American alternative rock band formed in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1984. Since 1992, the lineup has consisted of Ira Kaplan , Georgia Hubley , and James McNew .Despite achieving limited mainstream success, Yo La Tengo has been called "the quintessential...

, GusGus

GusGus

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, and Trans Am

Trans Am (band)

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, and released both an EP

Extended play

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 (Soft City) and a third album (Seconds) in 1997, before leaving Too Pure the next year. Their fourth and final album - Winter Birds, released in early 2000 - also got positive reviews, but they disbanded later that same year.

Post-Seely

Steven Satterfield began working with bassist Jim Prible in 2001, and after taking the name Silver Lakes, they released an album in 2006 entitled The Great Pretenders. Eric Taylor played on the album and joins the band on stage for live shows.
Silver Lakes was featured as one of Paste

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's "4 to Watch" in March 2007.

Lori Scacco went on to work with Scott Herren

Scott Herren

Guillermo Scott Herren is a music producer, who has been based in Atlanta, Barcelona and New York. Herren releases music under the aliases Prefuse 73, Delarosa & Asora and Piano Overlord, and is also part of the groups Savath y Savalas, Risil, and Diamond Watch Wrists.- Biography :Guillermo Scott...

 of Prefuse 73, and in 2004, she released a solo album, Circles, on Eastern Development

Eastern Developments Music

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, a label co-owned by Herren.

Seely reunited for one night only at a benefit show in 2006.

Discography

• Parentha See (Third Eye, 1996)
• Julie Only (Too Pure, 1996)
• Soft City EP (Too Pure, 1997)
• Seconds (Too Pure, 1997)
• Winter Birds (Koch Records
  Koch Records
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  , 2000)