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Memotone

Tollard

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Audiopile Review: Memotone AKA William Yates returns with his follow up to the beguiling and beautiful How Was Your Life? with his Trilogy Tapes debut. Serving as a soundtrack to the best noir detective movie never made, it’s another unique entry from a musician who refuses to sit still, cycling through dark tropical sounds and found-faux-exotica. Taking a page from CS & Kreme’s dark ambient landscapes as much as Bohren & Der Club Of Gore’s hypnotic midnight dirges, it also recalls the sure-footed homemade weirdness of fellow UK experimentalists Woo. “In The Lark’s Nest” could be plucked straight from Mark McGuire’s back catalogue, while “The Stone That Floats” could pass for a Rain Dogs instrumental. A door creaks, the tape turns over, bells in the distance, you’ve heard this song before, but it’s different this time.

Bristol producer Memotone makes his debut on The Trilogy Tapes with a new LP entitled Tollard. Memotone cuts a clear path between plugged in jazz and experimental abstraction throughout Tollard, combining warm and natural musicianship with atypical production choices and quick cut interstitial modes to keep listeners on their toes. Close mic’d (and beautifully rendered) pianos, organs, and horns take up most of the sonic landscape here, but the detuned percussion and distant vocals on tracks like ‘Funny To Stay The Same’ cut the largest figure in this collection.