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memoryland
Artist
CFCF
ReleaseProduct
memoryland
Label
BGM Solutions
Catalogue Number
BGM003
Release Date
April 9, 2021

Press Release

Montreal’s eclectic producer CFCF (aka Mike Silver) follows 2019’s effusive corporate jungle opus Liquid Colours with a kaleidoscopic capital-E Electronica album that takes a range of styles from his earliest formative listening years (1997-2000) and throws them in a blender. Elements of jungle, house, UK garage, trance, pop and post-grunge are blended to form a glossy picture of restless youth in an identity crisis: memoryland.

Inspired as much by Sonic Youth and Smashing Pumpkins as the Chemical Brothers and Basement Jaxx; as much by films like Millennium Mambo, Demonlover, Morvern Callar, Safe and Perfect Blue as late 90’s Prada — CFCF jumps across genres as a means of portraying a breadth of overlapping milieus and identities in this hyperactive Y2K period-piece that both explores and criticizes our own nostalgic impulses. From the opening intro’s announcement of arrival to the final credits, it’s an album as film as RPG, with the listener as its protagonist.

Opener “welcome.WAV” functions as a start-up sound file for the journey ahead: from “Life is Perfecto”, a propulsive breakbeat-dreampop hybrid, to a grotesquely-remixed ultra-French-house version of previously released single “Self Service”, and the recursive, metaphysical garage of “After the After”. Two guest vocalists lend their talents: Montreal neo-shoegaze icons No Joy, fresh off their own genre-defying Y2K exploration Motherhood, laconically lists off advice for aspiring fashion ingenues with bite in the alt-rock-IDM “Model Castings”, while Kero Kero Bonito’s Sarah Bonito sweetly delivers the penultimate “Heaven”, grunge-pop paean to the myth of Icarus.

In CFCF’s words: “I was feeling fatigued by an overabundance of ‘calming’, productivity-oriented music, and wanted to explore something angsty, messy, and dark, while also applying a pop sheen. I see a loose narrative across the album: your early 20’s, a new city, new people, new temptations and new traps. Losing your sense of self to the whims of your surroundings and trends in music and fashion; the wrong people, and trying to dig yourself out of that hole. There’s a hope of moving forward that glimmers in the last quarter of the album, but it’s out of reach and seems to come at a price. And then the looking back on it later with perspective; or the looking forward to it before with anticipation. As a kid I couldn’t wait to be in my 20’s; in my 30’s it’s bittersweet to look back. That’s the core of memoryland: the gulf between the fantasy, the reality, and the memory, and how we live inside each of those at different points.”

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Digital Tracklist

  1. 1 welcome.WAV 0:38 Buy

    welcome.WAV

  2. 2 Life is Perfecto 7:18 Buy

    Life is Perfecto

  3. 3 Nostalgic Body 5:50 Buy

    Nostalgic Body

  4. 4 Model Castings (feat. No Joy) 4:24 Buy

    Model Castings (feat. No Joy)

  5. 5 suburbilude 2:00 Buy

    suburbilude

  6. 6 Punksong 1:33 Buy

    Punksong

  7. 7 Night/Day/Work/Home 8:25 Buy

    Night/Day/Work/Home

  8. 8 Gravure Idol 4:42 Buy

    Gravure Idol

  9. 9 i regret the jet-set 1:34 Buy

    i regret the jet-set

  10. 10 Self Service 1999 7:16 Buy

    Self Service 1999

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Track List

A1. welcome.WAV
A2. Life is Perfecto
A3. Nostalgic Body
A4. Model Castings (ft. No Joy)
B1. suburbilude
B2. Punksong
B3. Night/Day/Work/Home
B4. Gravure Idol
C1. i regret the jet-set
C2. Self Service 1999
C3. Slippery Plastic Euphoric
C4. After the After
D1. dirty
D2. End — Curve of Forgetting
D3. Heaven (ft. Sarah Bonito)
D4. the ultraviolet room

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