The Memories are a quirky band – playing lo-fi pop music since 2010 – that somehow manage to strike the right chord time and time again. Last summer, Banana, from their Beautiful Sunrise EP (2021), was one of the highlights of my holiday playlist, replacing It Was a Hot Afternoon (2014). With a larger audience, they scored an unexpected TikTok hit with the explicit one minute song Go Down On You (aka Don’t be surprised if one day I just…) from their Love Is The Law LP (2012). For their new album Watching Movies, Rikky Gage (Free Weed, White Fang ), Izak Arida (Boom!, Hip Hop Izak) and Chris Uehlein (Feather Headdress, Unkle Funkle) wrote eleven new songs about their everyday events, and they close the album with a cover of Randy Newman’s Strange Things (known from the Toy Story soundtrack). In the new work, the breezy garage rock of the past has slowly but surely transitioned into dreamy indie pop – still lo-fi and quirky, with memorable lyrics and hooks, but a little more mature. Where is this going to end?
Watching Movies is out now digitally through Gnar Tapes.
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