MEMORY TAPES + Fitness Club Fiasco

Wed 20th Jan 2010

Eat Your Own Ears presents
MEMORY TAPES
+ Fitness Club Fiasco


7.30 doors
8.30 Fitness Club Fiasco (30)
9.30 Memory Tapes (60)

 
SOLD OUT
TICKETS AND GUEST LIST ONLY

Memory Tapes is a one man band based in New Jersey. He's been dropping bombs (as Memory Cassette and Weird Tapes) on Gorilla vs Bear through 2008 to huge acclaim and massive blog proliferation. His sound is nostalgic both aesthetically and emotionally, so there is little surprise when comparisons drift to outfits such as Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine, New Order and Boards of Canada.

 


More established pop references come through as well with echoes of classic Motown and girl groups. Ever prolific, Memory Tapes intends to make two albums a year, promising that the next one will a psychedelic girl-group record. 
 
"One of the great albums of 2009." - Sunday Times.  4/5 Album of the Week
 
"Just lovely…chanty, dancey, and quite irresistible." – Guardian Guide, SOTW
 
"Breath-taking" – Pitchfork 8.3, Best New Music
 
"Inspired Alchemy of Disco Euphoria and hazy Dream Pop." - Q 4/5
 
"It's lovely and unsettling at the same time, like The Police's "Wrapped Around Your Finger" sung by a choir of ghosts". - Rolling Stone
 
"A sun-bleached selection of '80s highlights." – Observer Music Monthly, 4/5
 
"A creamy, nostalgic trip that is one gently euphoric whoosh beyond pastiche. Bicycle's spry New Orderisms will have you spinning blissfully around the room while simultaneously evoking an overwhelming melancholic nostalgia for summers lost"" – NME 8/10
 
"Sheer brilliance" – Stool Pigeon
 
"Gleaming Synth Rock" - Uncut 4/5
 
"If you like dreamy, intelligent, epic pop, seek out the magic of Memory Tapes today. We play it to everyone we meet. You will too" – Dazed & Confused
 
"Seek Magic is probably my favourite album of the year." - DrownedInSound, 9/10
 
"Sweet Hooks and catchy choruses." - Vice
 
"We want to listen to this 24 more times in a row. Unnnggghhh it's so good!" – Fader
 
"Dreamy…excellent..perfect" – Gorilla vs Bear
 
"LikeThe Knife producing Neil Young." - TheLineOfBestFit
 
"if i dream up the best combination of vocals and instrument i can muster in my tiny brain then its the sound of Memory Tapes that comes out." - RoB DaBank Radio1
 
"The album of the year." - BBC Music
 
"Gliding synth funk resembling Talking Heads via New Order." - The Independent
 
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