Are You Driving Me Crazy?

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Are You Driving Me Crazy?
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Studio album by
Seam
ReleasedJune 20, 1995
RecordedJanuary 1995
Studio Idful, Chicago, Illinois
Genre Indie rock, slowcore, emocore
Length43:00
Label Touch and Go
Producer Brad Wood and Casey Rice
Seam chronology
The Problem with Me
(1993)		Are You Driving Me Crazy?
(1995)		 The Pace Is Glacial
(1998)
Professional ratings
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Are You Driving Me Crazy? is the third album by American indie rock band Seam. [3] [4] It was released in 1995 through Touch and Go Records. [5] [6] The band promoted the album by touring with aMiniature and Versus. [7]

Contents

Production

The album was primarily produced by Brad Wood. [8]

Critical reception

The Chicago Reader called the album "a bleak statement of emotional strain embodied by guitars that mewl with melancholy, bitterness, and unsure resolve." [9] The Chicago Tribune noted that "the edgy guitar textures overlap with the understated melancholy in [Sooyoung] Park's voice and lyrics, a reflection of a tumultuous year that ended with a pressure-packed recording schedule." [10] The Gazette stated: "Nothing new to this kind of ache-based grandeur, but Seam's languorous guitar noise serves its songs, and not the other way around." [11]

Kenneth Johnson of the Charlotte Observer in a 3.5/4 stars review remarked, "That this Chicago by-the-way-of-Chapel Hill band is back in action is enough to rejoice. That it's managed to match the crystalline beauty of its gorgeous CD "The Problem With Me" is an enormous bonus..."Are You Driving Me Crazy" is a triumphant and most welcome return." [2]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Seam.

No.TitleLength
1."Berlitz"3:14
2."Hey Latasha"3:34
3."Port of Charleston"5:59
4."Rainy Season"3:13
5."Two Is Enough"5:29
6."Haole Redux"2:57
7."Tuff Luck"5:20
8."Broken Bones"3:48
9."Sometimes I Forget"6:05
10."Petty Thievery"3:26

Personnel

Seam
Production and additional personnel

References

  1. ↑ Raggett, Ned. "Are You Driving Me Crazy?". AllMusic. Retrieved March 23, 2013.
  2. 1 2 Johnson, Kenneth (June 30, 1995). "Seam: "Are You Driving Me Crazy?"". Charlotte Observer. p. 63. Retrieved April 30, 2025– via newspapers.com.
  3. ↑ "Seam Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic.
  4. ↑ Buckley, Peter (April 27, 2003). The Rough Guide to Rock. Rough Guides. ISBN   9781843531050 – via Google Books.
  5. ↑ Sheppard, Denise (2007). "Seam". Trouser Press . Retrieved March 23, 2013.
  6. ↑ Fort, Marc (May 4, 1995). "The SEAM-y side of life". Austin American-Statesman. p. 10.
  7. ↑ McCarthy, Megan (July 1995). "Reviews". CMJ New Music Monthly (23): 13.
  8. ↑ Verna, Paul (July 22, 1995). "Album reviews — Are You Driving Me Crazy? by Seam". Billboard. Vol. 107, no. 29. p. 56.
  9. ↑ Margasak, Peter (May 25, 1995). "Seam/Aminiature". Chicago Reader.
  10. ↑ Kot, Greg (April 7, 1995). "AMONG THE LIVING". Chicago Tribune. Friday. p. S.
  11. ↑ Lepage, Mark (April 29, 1995). "SEAM Are You Driving Me Crazy?". The Gazette. p. F3.
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