Inside Into The Night: How Seadog Built a Haunted Dream Pop Single in Brighton
The Brighton Duo Return with a Third Single Since Internal Noise, Produced by Michelle Hindriks
The new Seadog single was finished in two rooms on the south coast. Michelle Hindriks, of the Brighton band Ciel, produced and mixed Into The Night at 17B Studios in Brighton. Engineer Paul Pascoe then mastered it at Church Road Studios in Hove. Released on 28 August 2026, it finds Seadog making dream pop about isolation and anxiety, built around the ghosts we carry long after the lights go out. It is the latest step in a quiet, steady run.
Seadog are in the playlist below with Into The Night, among the art pop and singer-songwriter picks, and the duo’s full run of coverage sits on the Seadog profile. The single reached this desk through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news sites. Start it playing and keep reading for the story behind it.
The Run of Dream Pop Singles That Brought Seadog From Internal Noise to Into The Night
Seadog is the Brighton project of Mark Benton and Tom Chadd, and their records have always taken their time. Their debut album, Cabin Fever Blues, arrived in 2018. The engineer Phill Brown, whose credits include Talk Talk, Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones, added production. The second, Internal Noise, began in the stillness of the 2020 lockdown. It came to full life at Bella Union’s studio in Brighton in 2024, with Jack Wolter of Penelope Isles producing and playing drums, guitars and backing vocals. His sister and bandmate Lily Wolter added guest vocals.
Crucially, that record found listeners. Writing for Obscure Sound in May 2024, Mike Mineo described an eclectic, melodic set. In his account it ran from the twangy rock haze of Old Joe to the synth-forward experiments of Analysis Paralysis, and the Wolters’ harmonies lifted Tied To A Mast. The album also earned airtime on BBC 6 Music and Amazing Radio. Its opening track, Tidal Wave, was selected for Tom Robinson’s BBC Introducing Mixtape on 6 Music and featured on Lauren Laverne’s 6 Music Recommends show.
How Michelle Hindriks Shaped the New Run at 17B Studios
Since then, the band have chosen singles over a quick third album. At War (With Everything) arrived in August 2025 and was previewed on John Kennedy’s X-Posure show on Radio X. Against The Grain followed in March 2026, and Into The Night is the third release since Internal Noise.
Above all, the biggest change is the room. For this run, the band have been working with Michelle Hindriks at her own 17B Studios. She produced and mixed At War (With Everything) there before taking on Into The Night. For the mastering, meanwhile, the band returned to Paul Pascoe, who also mastered Internal Noise, at Church Road Studios in Hove.
That continuity matters for a song like this one. A track built on creeping unease depends on small production choices. For example, how much space sits around the voice, how far the synths are allowed to drift and how close the guitars sit to the front of the mix. Working with the same producer across a run of singles gives those choices a consistent hand.
What Into The Night Answers About Isolation, Anxiety and the Ghosts That Stay After Dark
The subject is clear from the band’s own description: isolation, anxiety and a sense of creeping unease, the kind that stays after the lights go out. It is also a thread that runs back through their catalogue. When Obscure Sound reviewed Tidal Wave, the line it picked out was “Anxiety sets in”. Into The Night takes that idea and lets it fill a whole song.
The band describe their music as songs that drift between lullaby and anthem, and that tension suits the material. A lullaby is meant to settle a restless mind, so a song about night-time anxiety turns the idea around. In that sense, the single answers a simple question about where Seadog go after Internal Noise: further inward, with the same patience.
Their peers have also noticed the run. Simon Raymonde of Cocteau Twins and Bella Union put it this way: “Seadog have been quietly working their way into our hearts through a consistent run of tracks released over the last few years.”
Where to Hear the Seadog Dream Pop Single and Follow the Band Online
The band’s own reference points help place the sound. They name Grandaddy, The Flaming Lips, The Beta Band, Stereolab, Broadcast and Elliott Smith, and the combination makes sense. Grandaddy’s mix of synths and guitars sits close to Seadog’s. Broadcast’s haunted, reverb-heavy pop, by contrast, gives a sense of the mood Into The Night is reaching for. Earlier in the run, the French site Iggy Magazine picked up the 2022 single Here Nor There and praised its melodies and production.
The single is for listeners who appreciate the textures and dynamic range of alt rock pop, alternative rock and art rock. It also suits anyone who likes their dream pop with a shadow running through it. The band’s next show is at The Prince Albert in Brighton on 10 November.
From the NewMusic.News curator team: “Play Into The Night straight after Tidal Wave. The anxiety the band named on that earlier single becomes the whole subject here, and hearing the two together shows how far the Hindriks sessions have taken the sound.”
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