memoryland, by CFCF

memoryland

by CFCF

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Noah One of my favorite albums of all time! It's a trip to the past filled with beautiful soundscapes. You can feel the care and love that were put into this project and it's amazing. Favorite track: End—Curve of Forgetting.

808mothra indietronica's back bb !! Favorite track: Punksong.

metatron takes me back to my days in high school listening to progressive house, deadmau5, daft punk, james ferraro etc. pristine vibes on this one 8/10 Favorite track: Self Service 1999.

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Gatefold 2xLP on black vinyl with Limited 18x24in poster designed by Ben Sifel & Daylen Seu.
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Imported Japanese-only CD release of 'memoryland' with OBI strip and bonus liner notes. Contains the bonus track "Codependence".

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1.	welcome.WAV 00:38	buy track
2.	Life is Perfecto 07:17	buy track
3.	Nostalgic Body 05:50	buy track
4.	Model Castings (ft. No Joy) 04:23	buy track
5.	suburbilude 02:00	buy track
6.	Punksong 01:33	buy track
7.	Night/Day/Work/Home 08:25	buy track
8.	Gravure Idol 04:42	buy track
9.	i regret the jet-set 01:34	buy track
10.	Self Service 1999 07:15	buy track
11.	Slippery Plastic Euphoric 05:50	buy track
12.	After the After 06:30	buy track
13.	dirty 01:06	buy track
14.	End—Curve of Forgetting 06:19	buy track
15.	Heaven (ft. Sarah Bonito) 05:31	buy track
16.	The Ultraviolet Room 02:58	buy track
17.	Life is Perfecto (Point Hsu remix) 07:12	buy track

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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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released April 9, 2021

Mastering: Nik Kozub
Vinyl Lacquer: Marco Pellegrino @ Analogcut
Art Direction & Design: Ben Sifel
Creative Direction & Photography: Jodi Heartz & Alex Blouin
Illustrations: Daylen Seu
Textures & Retouching: Alex Cook

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