MEMORIALS

MEMORIALS, the duo consisting of Verity Susman and Matthew Simms (previously of Electrelane and Wire, It Hugs Back respectively), reveal their debut album ‘Memorial Waterslides’ set for release on 4th October.

Following their debut single ‘Acceptable Experience’  their second offering from the upcoming release ‘Cut It Like a Diamond’  is a track with a dark sense of despair, shifting continually over a driving bass line that is doggedly determined to remain the same.

As multi-instrumentalists they have honed their sound for live shows as a duo, juggling instruments in a set-up resembling that of a 5-piece band and live looping on a reel-to-reel tape machine.

Following their acclaimed 2023 soundtracks ‘Women Against The Bomb’  and ‘Tramps!’, a tour with Stereolab (they’ve been called “Stereolab’s evil twin”) and a new music commission from the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Verity Susman and Matthew Simms have arrived at MEMORIALS in reverse, escaping their cinematic day jobs to channel the spirit of free jazz, creating cosmic journeys into psychedelic rock, far-out folk and wild analogue electronics.

They originally met as part of the Too Pure label in the late 2000s when Verity’s Electrelane rubbed shoulders with Matthew’s It Hugs Back, his band prior to joining influential post-punk band Wire as guitarist.

‘Acceptable Experience’  is a most acceptable introduction to this very special duo. “A baroque-psyche burner… that falls somewhere between Broadcast and The Doors.” Brooklyn Vegan 

“A divinely tuneful, yet confrontational racket.”  The Wire Magazine 

“Engagingly eclectic”  Uncut Magazine 

“Remarkable daring and versatility”  The Quietus