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- Summary: This is the debut full-length release from Electrelane's Verity Susman and Wire's Matthew Simms as MEMORIALS.
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- Record Label: Fire Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Dream Pop, Neo-Psychedelia, Ambient Pop
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Oct 7, 2024While Memorial Waterslides (the title itself a perfect juxtaposition of the bleak and the playful) is shot through with a sense of longing and an awareness of the passing of time, it’s also a joyful celebration of creativity, and of a band who appear to have ideas in abundance.
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The WireOct 7, 2024The music they make is as quirky, infectious and amusing as the theme that powers it along, and Memorial Waterslides turns out to be a work of inspired joy. [Oct 2024, p.62]
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Oct 7, 2024Susman and Simms definitely have an assured career in soundtracks, and judging by Memorial Waterslides, they will have a long run as one of the most impressive practitioners of the cinema psych genre.
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UncutOct 7, 2024Their first LP is an imaginative amalgam of electronic pop, avant noise, psych-folk, freeform jazz and kosmische on a panoramic scale, which both delights and surprises. [Oct 2024, p.37]
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MojoOct 7, 2024Darkly versatile second LP. [Nov 2024, p.95]