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THE ORIGINS OF NATHANIEL SEER
In an age when attaching labels to our artists serves as an industry pastime, Nathaniel Seer confounds expectations, frustrates any attempt to pigeon hole, and ultimately explodes the definition of Americana. Seer was born to the howls and whines of a gospel choir, grew into an adolescence of precocious, sex obsessed indie rock, and in the end died an old man beneath the rumblings of a symphony orchestra. Upon his resurrection, Seer found that he had returned from the dead cursed with the hunger of Whitman, the thirst of Emerson, and the lust of Kerouac. With a voice that commands the power to lull as equally as it does to awaken, Nathaniel Seer sings songs that cannot be wrangled by archetypes. Rather, these are songs that exist in transit from mouth to ear, and finally at rest somewhere deep within the listener, unwavering.
PEOPLE SAY THIS ABOUT NATHANIEL SEER
Cheery music fans beware! This Bloomington, Indiana native's second album of Americana/folk narrative songs is memorable and unique, but decidely from a darker perspective. Seer moves stealthily from silky smooth like Jeff Buckley or John Cale (the darkly poetic “Karaoke,” for example) to more whiskey-soaked and dangerous ala Mark Lanegan (the rollicking Western-style murder ballad “John Brown's Hatchet”). Yet despite these comparisons, Seer's sound is purely his own. This combination of elements works well, and casts Seer as a serious contender for label interest, in my honest opinion. Songs Of Hate invokes a great American artistic spirit, and one that never grows old or tired. Superlative and worthy work, and easily recommended.
-Rob Wickett, News4U
"Hazy memories of small crimes and big truths are the cloth his songs are cut from."
-Wayne Bertsch, Barfly-NUVO
"...an all night quaalude and whiskey binge with Jeff Buckley and Leonard Cohen."
"Nathaniel Seer is a young man with a guitar who has somehow struck the delicate balance between the hushed imediacy of Nick Drake and the other worldly lilt of Jeff Buckley over a jazz influenced guitar style all his own. Not only that, he has mastered something neither one of those two legends has: that whole staying alive thing."
"...general social antipathy."
"Seer has one of the most incredible voices that can fetch chills."
-Aaron Distler, News 4u
"Indiana’s singer/songwriter scene is really quite something
considering the locale. Nathaniel Seer’s new disc, The Killing Task, came
to us in the same package with Sam Lowry’s Songs of My Enemy, at a time
when we just couldn’t get enough Murder by Death. But at the time, was
so much more Jeff Buckley-fronted Pedro the Lion meets Iron & Wine than
the other two Indyians, and we just couldn’t get into it in our positive,
upbeat state of mind.
What we needed was to enter a super low emotional state of being, and that my
friends, just takes time. You can’t force melancholy, you know? But fortunately,
we eventually found solace in the despair necessary to enjoy these agonizingly
intricate tracks. They are in fact, quite beautiful and did a superb job reinforcing
our depression. Apathy gave way to “repeat” on our iPod, and soon
we’re cradling our knees in a ball on the floor - swaying in time to the
guitar downstroke on beats 2 and 4."
"With a sound that evokes both Jeff Buckley and Nick Drake, Bloomington, Indiana's Nathaniel Seer is one of today's most promising young artists. He grew up with a mix of gospel, indie and orchestra music; however his biggest influences were poets and writers: Emerson, Kerouac and Whitman. His new album The Killing Task is sure to send chills down your spine."