Another of our long term labours of love stepping onto the dry land of the seven inch single after a season sailing in the great white surf of internet adulation is New Jersey’s aerial, daydream-wave wunderkind cum late night, wide awake celestial disco dilletante Memory Tapes . The afore-blogged “Bicycle” is simultaneously a spaceaged club firestarter, ethereal cosmic-disco cut and made up, lost new-wave crossover classic and the rest of the impending Loog release carries on in a similarly chameleonic way. Flipside “Plain Material” begins life as an underwater, murky garage sketch before mutating magnificently into an undulating, psychotropic synth-pop fantasy work-out with a terrifying fluidity and The Horrors make up the release with a brooding, isolated re-work of “Bicycle”, lacing the original’s tense and terse strings with some ominous, lonely rainfall noises before the whole thing becomes a zombiefied, lurching disco juggernaut.

“Bicycle” hits the shelves on August 18th. Pre-order it here and pick up a copy of the Memory Cassette EP from the project’s blog whilst you’re at it.

Memory Tapes – Plain Material

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This song has been painting my every waking moment in unnamed dream colours most wholesome and healing for some time now. Pictureplane take Stevie Nicks’ urgent, elastic vocal from ‘Seven Wonders’ and take it to the rainbow’s edge, somehow making it even more soulful and torn-apart perfect despite leaving it neck-deep and treading water in all sorts of cracked, stormcloud electronica. Been around for a while since P4K raved about it and not likely to go away any time soon. Just totally unafraid, balls-out beautiful and, most importantly, R-E-A-L.

Pictureplane – Goth Star

Pictureplane’s first full length “Dark Rift” is out soon through Lovepump Unltd.

[Photos by Marley]