Player Piano, by Memory Tapes

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1.	Musicbox(In) 00:40	buy track
2.	Wait In The Dark 04:13	buy track
3.	Today Is Our Life 05:14	buy track
4.	Yes I Know 03:39	buy track
5.	Offers 03:57	buy track
6.	Humming 02:44	buy track
7.	Sunhits 03:33	buy track
8.	Worries 05:24	buy track
9.	Fell Thru Ice 02:08	buy track
10.	Fell Thru Ice II 03:04	buy track
11.	Trance Sisters 03:57	buy track
12.	Musicbox(Out) 00:55	buy track

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"Player Piano" is the second full length from Davye Hawk’s Memory Tapes. It was, like its predecessor, the highly-acclaimed "Seek Magic", recorded at Dayve’s home studio in rural New Jersey, where he juggles looking after his young daughter and being a musician. While "Seek Magic" was quite an electronic sounding record with lots of dance music tropes, "Player Piano" is all about the melody. Simply put, there are lots of catchy tunes here: sing-along choruses throughout the album and songs that feel very immediate and accessible, despite consistently dark lyrics that describe a disconnected mindset and a profound sense of isolation. The template for "Player Piano" was that it would be “keyboard-based psychedelic girl group songs, a sort of Motown suicide note”. Largely eschewing modern beats this time in favor of “drums that sound like The Kinks’ 60s records”, there are still the spaces of modern R’n’B, along with 50s doo wop, krautrock and a couple of nods to Aphex Twin. Dayve is already working on Memory Tapes’ third album, which is going to be a “space rock, kind of Black Sabbath” guitar based set.

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released July 5, 2011

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