Memory Silo, by Gundersen/Meyer

Memory Silo

by Gundersen/Meyer

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a modern ambient classic - 4 hypnotizing tracks from Spencer Gundersen & Nigel Meyer (Drafting) across 2 sides for a running time of nearly an hour

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3.	Tompkins Ave 08:19	buy track
4.	Key Voice 20:41	buy track

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A drive through your hometown, watching landmarks real and fictive pass you by; a past loss flickering like a shadow across your bedroom wall in a moment alone: Spencer Gundersen and Nigel Meyer trace the contours of this queasy, beautiful space throughout their expansive and exploratory Memory Silo, moving between darkness and delicacy with a classicist’s sense of post-rock structure and the experiential logic of nonlinear recall.

The sparse, sketch-like opening of its title track, dappled with slides and finger squeaks, foregrounds the tactile pleasure of cycling chord shapes, feeling through the dark for something new and powerful. The patient introduction of additional guitars, percussion, and, fabulously, melodica—first as a subtle, chordal swell and then a keening lead—evokes the accumulative process of both its own making and our memory’s overlap.

Each track that follows further illustrates Gundersen and Meyer’s shared gift for carefully constructed sonic space and gracefully unspooling arrangements. “Meditation,” the first of two extended cuts here, exemplifies the project’s deliberate pacing and wistful emotional palette. As the track locks into a contemplative pulse, its gentle acoustic arpeggiations are complicated by a sheet of fuzz layered low in the mix, roiling at the edge of menace.

“Tompkins Ave,” dreamlike and sculptural, expertly builds to a climax of seismic riffage with thoughtful deployment of recording and effects, its multitracked guitars variously suggesting the growl of a string section and a warm bed of synthesizers while stacks of wordless vocal harmony form lush and complex pads underneath them.

A shape-shifting epic, sweetened by electric piano then subverted by harsh peals of digital clipping, Memory Silo’s final offering is its biggest surprise. Where “Meditation” employs its length in service of sustained mood-building, “Key Voice” charts the project’s timbral and textural extremes across its extended duration, beginning with perhaps its poppiest gesture before turning down a corridor into shuddering feedback and Gundersen’s freest work behind the kit. When this, too, transforms into a chugging, wide-eyed rave-up, it is a delirious, cathartic joy.

Memory Silo is a set of frightful beauty, assured craftsmanship, and remarkable dynamic range, rewarding repeated listenings and personal reflection.

-Sam Kurzydlo

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released April 28, 2023

All instruments recorded at home by Spencer Gundersen in Salt Lake City and Nigel Meyer in New York City

Additional piano on Tompkins Ave by an anonymous neighbor

Memory Silo was recorded July-December 2022 through long-distance file sharing

Mastered by Max Gowan
Ceramic Artwork by Andrew Bos
Cover photo by Spencer Gundersen

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