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Criteria 'Seize' LP
Criteria 'Seize' LP

Criteria 'Seize' LP

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ÂŁ22.00 GBP

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SKU: SPAR124

Spartan Records

LP - Peony Marble ltd 250
đźš› - Pre-Order expected to ship mind May 2026

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Criteria’s SEIZE! is a sonically and thematically heavy record shaped by loss, endings, and the growing urgency to capture life while it’s still unfolding. Formed in Omaha in the early 2000s by Stephen Pedersen following his departure from Cursive, Criteria has always lived in the space between melody and weight, control and collapse. It has never been a careerist project. The band has only moved when there was something real enough to justify it.

SEIZE! reflects a period of profound personal and professional change: relationships dissolving, chapters closing, and attention turning toward the fragile beauty of the present. Recorded over seven winter days at ARC Studios in Omaha with producer Matt Bayles and mastered by Ed Brooks at Resonant Mastering, the album channels what Pedersen calls “pristinely heavy,” drawing from the physicality of Smashing Pumpkins’ Siamese Dream era, the pulse of Battles, and the tension of Quicksand.

Much of the record was written in an open C tuning that turns the guitar into a massive, resonant object, reinforcing the album’s central duality: SEIZE! as in seize the day, and seize as in halt, collapse, and end. This is not a comeback record. It is a document of where a life is right now, rendered in sound.


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