MEMORIALS "We Live Here" / "Dropped Down the Well" at Public Records, Brooklyn, 25th September 2025

Описание: 00:00 We Live Here
09:15 Dropped Down the Well

MEMORIALS are two-piece band from Canterbury, UK, consisting of Verity Susman and Matthew Simms.
Their album "Memorial Waterslides" is terrific. Also check out their film soundtracks including the crowd-pleaser "We Live Here" from "Tramps!"
Thanks to Verity for giving me the names of these new tracks.

Setlist:
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/memori...

Official:
https://memorialsmusic.bandcamp.com/

‘Memorial Waterslides’ is the debut album from MEMORIALS, the duo consisting of Verity Susman and Matthew Simms (previously of Electrelane and Wire). This is an otherworldly, surrealist pop record that is both timeless and timely, displaying a rare mix of classic songwriting and avant-garde attitudes.

MEMORIALS create panoramic pop that draws on both the familiar and the strange, while also treading new ground. With their playful and experimental style, combined with a love of good tunes, they sit comfortably alongside Broadcast, Portishead, Arthur Russell, The Velvet Underground, Yo La Tengo and Tortoise.

The album is awash with imagery evoking a lost future, a veiled present and a daydreamed past, each song playing a role in creating a swirling, widescreen atmosphere, the listener taken along for the ride. Produced entirely by the two of them, the sound of the record was inspired by the reel-to-reel tape experiments they first played around with onstage as they began to develop their multi-layered recordings for live performances as a duo.

Following their acclaimed 2023 soundtracks ‘Women Against The Bomb’ and ‘Tramps!’, a European tour with Stereolab (they’ve been called “Stereolab’s evil twin”) and a new music commission from the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Verity and Matthew arrived at MEMORIALS in reverse, escaping their soundtracking day jobs to create cosmic journeys through the garden shed into psychedelic rock, far-out folk and wild analogue electronics.

“Everything you’d expect from a duo adept in the strange and esoteric, while also in thrall to pop music’s melodic bent.” The Quietus

Bands playing in NYC in the next 6 months playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5R9...

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