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POSTED 19.01.10
NEW MEMORY TAPES SHOW ANNOUNCED
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After selling out the Luminaire in lightning speed, Memory Tapes have added a second London date, playing Cargo on the 13 of March.
Eat Your Own Ears presents
MEMORY TAPES
Plus special guests
Saturday 13th March, 2010
Doors 20.00
Cargo, 83 Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3AY 020 7749 7844
Tickets £10 from:
www.ticketweb.co.uk
08444 771000
www.seetickets.com
0870 264 3333
www.myspace.com/memorytapes
After a sold out show at The Luminaire in January, MEMORY TAPES is back to play at Cargo. 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. After the great reception that greeted his debut album, the ever prolific, MEMORY TAPES intends to make two albums a year, promising that the next one will a psychedelic girl group record...
HIGH PRAISE FROM THE PRESS
"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 http://tiny.cc/2fZUq
“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 http://tiny.cc/2fZUq
“(A) sun-bleached selection of 80s highlights” – OBSERVER MUSIC MONTHLY OMM 4/5,
“A creamy, nostalgic trip that is one gently euphoric whoosh beyond pastiche.” – NME 8/10
“Sheer brilliance” – STOOL PIGEON
“Gleaming Synth Rock” UNCUT 4/5
“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
“If you like dreamy, intelligent, epic pop, seek out the magic of Memory Tapes today.” – DAZED & CONFUSED
“We want to listen to this 24 more times in a row. Unnnggghhh it’s so good!” – Fader http://tiny.cc/fQMQ9
“Dreamy…excellent..perfect” – Gorilla vs Bear
“…like The Knife producing Neil Young” TheLineOfBestFit
“Bicycle’s spry New Orderisms will have you spinning blissfully around the room while simultaneously evoking an overwhelming melancholic nostalgia for summers lost” – NME 10 Tracks http://tiny.cc/GOUeS
“Victory is assured” NME 10 Tracks again http://tiny.cc/GftAR
“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
