Memory Care Unit, by Secret Boyfriend

Memory Care Unit

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1.	The Singing Bile 07:18		buy track
2.	Little Jammy Center 08:58		buy track
3.	They're Playing Themselves 04:46		buy track
4.	Paean Delle Palme 03:46		buy track
5.	Stripping at the Nail 08:23	lyrics	buy track
no seven wound design am I salt? straight in lace? leveling the light how can they be preserved how can they prevail they'll walk away it's not what the deserve stripping at the nail in soft delay lost in details so they shutter yesterday against the now of course it's you it's your heir now rest resolve receiver must decide am I salt? past the wake? leveling the light they'll walk away how can they be preserved how can they prevail they'll walk away it's not what they deserve stripping at the nail in soft delay lost in details so they shutter yesterday inside the now they'll walk away of course it's you it's your heir now rest resolve
6.	Memorize Them Well 08:15		buy track
7.	Singleminded (for Elaine Kahn) 04:17		buy track

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originally released on vinyl by Blackest Ever Black in 2016

track 7 originally released on the Blackest Ever Black compilation "I Can't Give You The Live You Want" in 2015 and appended to this digital version as a lil contemporaneous bonus

BEB description:
"A new long-form offering of poignant, isolationist machine music from Secret Boyfriend. Eschewing the cryptic and compact song-sketches that characterised his 2013 Blackest Ever Black LP, This Is Always Where You’ve Lived, Ryan Martin instead guides us through vast interior topographies and nerve-damaged ambiences that comfort and deceive like memory itself.

Beginning with ‘The Singing Bile’ – minimal synth submerged and subjected to an almost oceanic pressure – the tracks are mostly crude, extended live improvisations, recorded straight to tape. Martin’s loose intention was to subtract himself from proceedings and “let the music play itself”, but the erasure is not quite complete: on the contrary, each piece feels distinctly authored, and charged with personal significance. The atrophying loops of ‘Memorize Them Well’ broach the elegiac grandeur of Gas and William Basinski, while ‘Paean Delle Palme’ summons E.A.R., Af Ursin, and the clammy, opioid exoticism of :zoviet*france:*’s Just An Illusion. The album is largely instrumental, but there are two weighty exceptions: the sprawling, drumbox-driven space blues of ‘Little Jammy Centre’ and the guileless yearning of ‘Stripping At The Nail’. This is electronic pop undressed, unravelled and mapped onto the infinite wave."

recorded live to tape at Meadows of Dan, Carrboro NC 2013-2014, except "Stripping at the Nail", which was multi-tracked via cassette 8-track. B1 is composed from a fragment of a cassette by Chelsea Delle Palme. Tracks A1, A2, A3, B3 originally appeared on the "They're Playing Themselves" luxury box on Grovl Tapes.

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released January 5, 2016

mastered by Noel Summerville

art by Luciann Waldrup

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