Memorial Waterslides

by MEMORIALS

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1.	Acceptable Experience 03:07	buy track
2.	Lamplighter 04:11	buy track
3.	Cut It Like A Diamond 04:26	buy track
4.	Name Me 04:49	buy track
5.	Memorial Waterslide II 03:37	buy track
6.	Book Stall 03:43	buy track
7.	False Landing 06:23	buy track
8.	Horse Head Pencil 02:09	buy track
9.	I Have Been Alive 08:53	buy track
10.	The Politics Of Whatever 03:52	buy track

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‘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

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released October 4, 2024

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MEMORIALS Canterbury, UK

Verity Susman & Matthew Simms

UK/Euro Bookings: Liam Keightley / ITB
Email: [email protected]

Managed by Martin Pike / ALM
Email: [email protected]

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Oct 23

Heartbreakers

Southampton, UK
Oct 24

ALPHABET

Brighton, UK

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