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TheOwlMag on Memoryhouse

Memoryhouse The Slideshow Effect [Sub Pop]

Memoryhouse‘s Evan Abeele and Denise Nouvion, often compared to fellow dream pop darlings and labelmates Beach House drops their debut LP The Slideshow Effect on the Sub Pop label this month. From the subdued a capella beginnings of “Little Expressionless Animals” we suspect that this will not simply be another dream pop record. The immediate follow up of indie rock tinged “The Kids Were Waiting” confirms this suspicion.

“Punctum” is deliciously folk-like, complete with lovely slide guitar. “Let’s get cold together,” exclaims Nouvion on “Bonfire” enveloping us with her calming warmth of her voice. The last three songs on the album moves back into Memoryhouse‘s dream pop wheelhouse albeit, a much more refined variation of their old sound. The Slideshow Effect is punctuated with the dreamlike transfixing “Old Haunts” which starts off slowly until it reaches a slightly feverish crescendo, and fades off as quietly as it began.

Evan Abeele and Denise Nouvion, the yin and yang that make up Memoryhouse, have crafted a quietly rocking album. Navigating their lo-fi dream pop sound towards a sometime folksy and more indie rock course, then back again. The Slideshow Effect may not be an album to rock out to, but it is definitely worth soaking in.

Quit Mumbling on Memoryhouse

The first few days of the year always carry with them a clear-headed air of calm, a sense of peace kindly granted to us in the spirit of the New Year to really catch our mental breath before all that's coming. So the wonderfully fuzzy Zombies cover "This Will Be Our Year" by Memoryhouse, the spontaneous duo of classical music student Evan Abeele and photographer Denise Nouvion, couldn't have more appropriate timing. It's joyful and optimistically looking forward based on inconclusive "good vibes," but with one reflective eye still focused on the past, which fits in just right more here

Quit Mumbling on Memoryhouse

The first few days of the year always carry with them a clear-headed air of calm, a sense of peace kindly granted to us in the spirit of the New Year to really catch our mental breath before all that's coming. So the wonderfully fuzzy Zombies cover "This Will Be Our Year" by Memoryhouse, the spontaneous duo of classical music student Evan Abeele and photographer Denise Nouvion, couldn't have more appropriate timing. It's joyful and optimistically looking forward based on inconclusive "good vibes," but with one reflective eye still focused on the past, which fits in just right more at elbo.ws

mySpoonful on Memoryhouse

Memoryhouse guide listeners through a dreamscape of human frailty, composing recitations on restraint where rhythm is tempered by ambient breezes of hushed melodies and contemplative vocals reverberate inward. more at myspoonful.com