If you’ve been an audiophile since the days before streaming, there’s a good chance you’re already familiar with Memorex. The electronic manufacturing company had a chokehold on the blank CD industry, and if you were an internet pirate on LimeWire there was a good chance you burned your stolen music onto a Memorex CD. Fast forward quite some years later, and Memorex is back in a BIG way — but it’s the tag-team of Mykel Online and Maki Adams that make up the band Memorex. Today, via airborne & palate house, Memorex has released their debut single, with the help of underground cult sensation Lucas Lex, entitled batwings.
If you’ve been tapped in with these guys, then you know that they’ve been working towards something together for quite some time, and now, we finally have a glimpse at what an album by Memorex might sound like. The single finds the three emotionally paranoid, questioning their own behaviors over an instrumental that has influences of UK Radiohead and The 1975 sprinkled into an utterly unique sonic experience that is punchy as it is psychedelic and mesmerizing. Maki sets the tone early with an ominous opening verse about seeing batwings ever as he passes the torch onto
Lex for a stellar chorus. Mykel then comes into finish with an account of what his version of being lost sounds like. Together the three create a sound I’d love to sit around and listen to more of.
Batwings comes as the first single on Memorex’s upcoming self-titled album, which is due out August 2nd.
If you enjoyed the single, be sure to tap the link and head over to the band’s YouTube page, as they’re premiering a music video for it on Monday (7/18)
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