''The Problem with Me'' is the second album by American

indie rock Indie rock is a Music subgenre, subgenre of rock music that originated in the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand from the 1970s to the 1980s. Originally used to describe independent record labels, the term became associated with the mu ...

band Seam. It was released in 1993 through

Touch and Go Records Touch and Go Records is an American independent record label based in Chicago, Illinois. After its genesis as a handmade fanzine in 1979, it grew into one of the key record labels in the American 1980s underground and alternative rock scenes. To ...

Critical reception

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'' wrote: "Nine blissfully hypnotic songs circled ooyoungPark’s sadness and anger, building up tension and releasing it in a crash of restrained guitars and half-shouted vocals." '' Spin'' called the album "completely enveloping--a soft swirl of mood music with echoes of loneliness and confusion."

Legacy

Andrew Earles, in ''Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996'', wrote that the album "would be hugely influential on the first wave of '90s emo bands and related practitioners of semi-popular indie rock" throughout the rest of the decade.

Track listing

Personnel

;Seam *Lexi Mitchell –

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Sooyoung Park Sooyoung Park (born 1967) is an American and South Korean singer-songwriter, best known for fronting the bands Bitch Magnet and Seam (band), Seam. In 1995 he co-founded Foundation of Asian American Independent Media, an art festival dedicated t ...

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vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or witho ...

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*Bob Rising –

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*Craig White – guitar ;Production and additional personnel * Bundy K. Brown –

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on "Road to Madrid" and "Sweet Pea" *

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– drums on "Road to Madrid" *

Brad Wood Brad Wood is an American record producer located in Los Angeles. He has produced many albums, including Liz Phair's '' Exile in Guyville'' and Placebo's debut. Career Wood is from Rockford, Illinois, United States. In 1988, Wood, along wit ...

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References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Problem With Me 1993 albums Seam (band) albums albums produced by Brad Wood Touch and Go Records albums