Seth Knappen is a sophisti-pop singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist active since the mid 1990s shoegaze/slowcore and Chicago post-rock scenes. He released two albums through the iconic Twin/Tone label from Minneapolis with the band Darling, while sharing the stage with acts like Low, Jeremy Enigk, American Analog Set, Modest Mouse, and Palace (Will Oldham/Bonnie Prince Billy). The band’s final album - “The Floating World” - was recorded in 1999 with shoegaze legends Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker of the band Low. The album’s complex approach to downtempo minimalism charted new territory for the trends to come in indie shoegaze, and released to glowing reviews before the band broke up in 2001.  

In 2003 he released his first solo album, “Leaving Sound,” recorded again with his friend Alan Sparhawk in Duluth, MN. A painter and former art school student, Seth then spent the next 20 years honing his art - what he calls “soundpainting” - into a highly evocative style all his own, combining a broad range of visual arts and creative concerns into emotionally charged soundscapes that defy easy genre classifications.  

Seth’s most recent work is “Fever Dream, Forever Yours,” recorded with the visionary post-rock mastermind John McEntire of Chicago’s famed Soma Electronic Music Studios, who also provides the rhythmic backbone of the album with drums, percussion, and vibraphone. Along with a roster of outstanding featured players, they created a sophisti-pop masterpiece that reflects Seth’s singular vision as it has developed for over 30 years, and crafted the shoegaze yacht rock wonderland for our times - FEVER DREAM, FOREVER YOURS.  Mixed and mastered by John McEntire (Tortoise, the Sea and Cake, Stereolab) and with a special vinyl master by the legendary Chris Bellman (Michael Jackson, Toto, Willie Nelson, Supertramp, Rick James, etc…), the album is a dripping, slipping, shimmering work of audio art worthy of inclusion in anyone’s music collection.