{"product_id":"memorials-memorial-waterslides-2026-repress","title":"MEMORIALS - Memorial Waterslides (2026 Repress)","description":"‘\u003ci\u003eMemorial Waterslides\u003c\/i\u003e’ is the debut album from MEMORIALS, the duo consisting of Verity Susman and Matthew Simms (previously of Electrelane and Wire). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is an otherworldly, surrealist pop record that is both timeless and timely, displaying a rare mix of classic songwriting and avant-garde attitudes. MEMORIALS create panoramic pop that draws on both the familiar and the strange, while also treading new ground. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith their playful and experimental style, combined with a love of good tunes, they sit comfortably alongside Broadcast, Portishead, Arthur Russell, The Velvet Underground, Yo La Tengo and Tortoise. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe album is awash with imagery evoking a lost future, a veiled present and a daydreamed past, each song playing a role in creating a swirling, widescreen atmosphere, the listener taken along for the ride. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProduced entirely by the two of them, the sound of the record was inspired by the reel-to-reel tape experiments they first played around with onstage as they began to develop their multi-layered recordings for live performances as a duo. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollowing their acclaimed 2023 soundtracks, ‘Women Against The Bomb’ and ‘Tramps!’, a European tour with Stereolab (they’ve been called “Stereolab’s evil twin”) and a music commission from the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Verity and Matthew arrived at MEMORIALS in reverse, escaping their soundtracking day jobs to create cosmic journeys through the garden shed into psychedelic rock, far-out folk and wild analogue electronics.","brand":"Fire Records","offers":[{"title":"Blue LP","offer_id":50990574469398,"sku":"RMX-61136","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0839\/7750\/2998\/files\/76b1c66bc1e872ad7dd3b1e071d94901.jpg?v=1769442423","url":"https:\/\/resident-music-uk.myshopify.com\/products\/memorials-memorial-waterslides-2026-repress","provider":"Resident Music UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}