{"id":42070,"date":"2025-05-10T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=42070"},"modified":"2025-05-07T18:51:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T22:51:57","slug":"stalemate-seedbeds-bold-debut-arrives-june-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=42070","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Stalemate\u2019: Seedbed\u2019s bold debut arrives June 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Get ready to dive into the swirling world of Seedbed\u2019s debut full\u2011length, \u2018<strong>Stalemate<\/strong>,\u2019 arriving June 2025 on Tiny Engines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Mouse At Your Feet<\/em><\/strong> is out now\u2014think laid\u2011back slacker rock that bubbles up into glorious distortion. JJ Posway trades vocals with Anna Staddon over a groove that\u2019s equal parts scratched\u2011together charm and polished punch. If you\u2019re into Broken Social Scene\u2019s epic builds, Duster\u2019s hazy guitars, The Microphones\u2019 intimate oddities, The Radio Dept\u2019s dreamy haze or Rainer Maria\u2019s heartfelt riffs, you\u2019re in the right place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X9E9NqY7Q4Y?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br>What to expect<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Stalemate\u2019 is seven years of highs, lows, restless nights and big changes distilled into ten tracks. You\u2019ll find moments of polished reflection on <em>Unit 4<\/em> and that hypnotic, title\u2011less nine\u2011letter track, while <em>Fingertips Like Ice<\/em> and opener <em>Mouse At Your Feet<\/em> crash in a storm of feedback. It\u2019s an album about growth\u2014and the unease that comes with it\u2014yet every swell and sudden hush reminds you why change can be beautiful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_4360.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1021\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_4360-1024x1021.jpeg?resize=1024%2C1021&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Seedbed Stalemate cover artwork\" class=\"wp-image-42072\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_4360.jpeg?resize=1024%2C1021 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_4360.jpeg?resize=300%2C300 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_4360.jpeg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_4360.jpeg?resize=768%2C766 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_4360.jpeg?w=1064 1064w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2018<strong>Stalemate<\/strong>\u2018 track list<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mouse At Your Feet<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It Comes Around Less Often<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>C c c c c c c c c c c c<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Archaic Smiles<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Raft<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Unit 4<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Computer Trouble<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Billowing Redo<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fingertips Like Ice (Sebastian)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stalemate<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Pre-order \u2018Stalemate\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/te.lsnto.me\/stalemate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who\u2019s behind it<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Seedbed is JJ Posway\u2019s new playground\u2014a revolving collection of Atlanta and Athens friends who took the final Scooterbabe recordings, sprinkled in fresh ideas, and let producer Terence Chiyezhan sculpt the pieces into something startling. Anna Staddon\u2019s keys and vocals, Michael Buice\u2019s bass and Zach Spires\u2019s drums from Scooterbabe\u2019s last lineup weave through the songs, but this is a whole new beast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Press play on <em>Mouse At Your Feet<\/em>, mark your calendar for June, and join Seedbed as they turn creative tension into something wildly alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Get ready to dive into the swirling world of Seedbed\u2019s debut full\u2011length, \u2018Stalemate,\u2019 arriving June 2025 on Tiny Engines. Mouse At Your Feet is out <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=42070\" title=\"\u2018Stalemate\u2019: Seedbed\u2019s bold debut arrives June 2025\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,23,28,30,1907],"tags":[12447,12446,7757,12448],"class_list":["post-42070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guitar-rock","category-indie","category-music","category-new-release","category-news","tag-mouse-at-your-feet","tag-seedbed","tag-stalemate","tag-tiny-engines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_4359-scaled.webp?fit=2557%2C2560","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-aWy","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43282,"url":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=43282","url_meta":{"origin":42070,"position":0},"title":"Seedbed embraces the chaos on debut album\u00a0\u2018Stalemate\u2019","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"July 20, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Seedbed is not here to make things easy. 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