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by Dan Goldin (@post_trash_)

For all its compositional elegance and artistic grace, Memorial Waterslides isn’t an overtly precious album.

Verity susman biography of abraham

MEMORIALS’ debut album came to life in spare moments between projects, giving the duo of Verity Susman (Electrelane) and Matthew Simms (Wire, It Hugs Back) a chance to entertain impulses, to exercise sonic freedom while working together on soundtracks and film scores.

They approach experimental pop with a gleeful radiance, warping between gluey sugar spun hooks and rich layered temporal drifts, their clamoring noise pop excursions and textural static played with an honest “exploring the studio” sense of bliss.

This is thoughtful music, beautiful music, and challenging music, but it’s also a record that took shape around the duo’s collective chuckles at the idea of waterslides used as memorials. MEMORIALS’ patchwork nuances and focus on detail is most certainly high art, but that doesn’t mean they can’t have some fun with it.

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