MEMORIALS, the duo of Verity Susman (Electrelane) and Matthew Simms (It Hugs Back / Wire), have announced their debut album, Memorial Waterslides, which will be out October 4 via Fire Records. It follows their two excellent documentary soundtracks, Women Against The Bomb and Tramps!, which were released last year.
The album includes “Acceptable Experience,” which was released in June, and the new single is motorik groover “Cut Like a Diamond” which will appeal to fans of Electrelane and It Hugs Back (and Stereolab and Broadcast). MEMORIALS say: “We wrote ‘Cut It Like A Diamond’ around a bass line that’s doggedly determined to stay the same throughout, with folk harmonies, shifting drum grooves and angry saxophone squalls moving relentlessly over it. The song is underscored by a dark sense of despair – ‘Can you hear the hum? Is there an end to loneliness?’ – and has become a highlight to play live.” Watch the trippy video below.
MEMORIALS have upcoming UK live dates and those are listed below.
Memorial Waterslides
1. Acceptable Experience
2. Lamplighter
3. Cut It Like A Diamond
4. Name Me
5. Memorial Waterslide II
6. Book Stall
7. False Landing
8. Horse Head Pencil
9. I Have Been Alive
10. The Politics of Whatever