Memory Tapes returns with new album, 'Player Piano'
Dayve Hawk, the man who led the chillwave vanguard and then transcended it, is set to release Player Piano, his second album as Memory Tapes, on 4 July.
Memory Tapes’ debut, Seek Magic, remains one of the touchstone records of the final part of the last decade. Presumably thinking it makes little sense to mess with a formula that yielded 30,000 sales worldwide, Hawk has made the follow-up in the same environment – his New Jersey home studio.
According to Hawk, Player Piano takes its queues from “keyboard-based psychedelic girl-group songs” and favours “drums that sound like The Kinks’ ’60s records” over programmed beats.
The album will see a European release through Something In Construction, and Hawk will be debuting it live over the summer. Stream ‘Today Is Our Life’, a song that will appear on Player Piano but in different form, below.
http://soundcloud.com/memorytapes/today-is-our-life
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