MEMORYLAND 2LP

BARCODE 840200502658 MISC. Gatefold Sleeve TRACK LISTING A1. welcome.WAV A2. Life is Perfecto A3. Nostalgic Body A4. Model Castings (ft. No Joy) B1. suburbilude B2. Punksong B3. Night/Day/Work/Home B4. Gravure Idol C1. i regret the jet-set C2. Self Service 1999 C3. Slippery Plastic Euphoric C4. After the After D1. dirty D2. End ž Curve of Forgetting D3. Heaven (ft. Sarah Bonito) D4. the ultraviolet room SALES NOTES Montreal™s eclectic producer CFCF (aka Mike Silver) follows 2019™s effusive corporate jungle opus Liquid Colours with a kaleidoscopic capital-E Electronica album that takes a range of styles from his earliest formative listening years (1997-2000) and throws them in a blender. Elements of jungle, house, UK garage, trance, pop and post-grunge are blended to form a glossy picture of restless youth in an identity crisis: memoryland. Inspired as much by Sonic Youth and Smashing Pumpkins as the Chemical Brothers and Basement Jaxx; as much by films like Millennium Mambo, Demonlover, Morvern Callar, Safe and Perfect Blue as late 90™s Prada ž CFCF jumps across genres as a means of portraying a breadth of overlapping milieus and identities in this hyperactive Y2K period-piece that both explores and criticizes our own nostalgic impulses. From the opening intro™s announcement of arrival to the final credits, it™s an album as film as RPG, with the listener as its protagonist. Opener šwelcome.WAV› functions as a start-up sound file for the journey ahead: from šLife is Perfecto›, a propulsive breakbeat-dreampop hybrid, to a grotesquely-remixed ultra-French-house version of previously released single šSelf Service›, and the recursive, metaphysical garage of šAfter the After›. Two guest vocalists lend their talents: Montreal neo-shoegaze icons No Joy, fresh off their own genre-defying Y2K exploration Motherhood, laconically lists off advice for aspiring fashion ingenues with bite in the alt-rock-IDM šModel Castings›, while Kero Kero Bonito™s Sarah Bonito sweetly delivers the penultimate šHeaven›, grunge-pop paean to the myth of Icarus. In CFCF™s words: šI was feeling fatigued by an overabundance of ˜calming™, productivity-oriented music, and wanted to explore something angsty, messy, and dark, while also applying a pop sheen. I see a loose narrative across the album: your early 20™s, a new city, new people, new temptations and new traps. Losing your sense of self to the whims of your surroundings and trends in music and fashion; the wrong people, and trying to dig yourself out of that hole. There™s a hope of moving forward that glimmers in the last quarter of the album, but it™s out of reach and seems to come at a price. And then the looking back on it later with perspective; or the looking forward to it before with anticipation. As a kid I couldn™t wait to be in my 20™s; in my 30™s it™s bittersweet to look back. That™s the core of memoryland: the gulf between the fantasy, the reality, and the memory, and how we live inside each of those at different points.›