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Released | 1995 | |||
Label | Hollywood | |||
Producer | Adam Kasper, Seaweed | |||
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Spanaway is an album by the American band Seaweed. [1] [2] It was released in 1995 on Hollywood Records. [3] The album is named for the Washington community. [4]
The first single was "Start With", which peaked at No. 38 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart. [5] [6] Seaweed supported the album with a North American tour, which included playing the 1995 Warped Tour. [7] [8] Spanaway was a commercial disappointment. [9]
The album was produced primarily by Adam Kasper; it was mixed by Andy Wallace. [10] Barrett Martin and Matt Cameron played drums on some tracks. [11] Seaweed wrote the songs over a period of two years. [12] "Magic Mountainman" is about singer Aaron Stauffer's farm near Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake; "Not Saying Anything" is about domestic discontent. [13] [14]
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Trouser Press noted that "increases in budget and studio time enable Seaweed to deliver its best work, an inspired major-label detour." [16] The Austin Chronicle deemed it "a raw, in your-face, post-punk record." [17] The Philadelphia Inquirer called Spanaway "sugar-charged anthem rock." [7]
CMJ New Music Monthly noted that the band "is at its best when slathering anthemic vocals, sharp hooks and meatgrinder guitars on top of a blistering 4/4." [4] The Record determined that "the overall effect ... is still one of numbing, hyperclenched assault, with the group's chief virtue being mere moshability." [18] The Sun-Sentinel concluded that Spanaway "follows the loud-fast rule of the new melodic punk genre with stinging guitars and maximum volume." [19]
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