Memory Tapes New Album Player Piano Streaming

In anticipation of the second album by Memory Tapes, the music blog The Quietus has made the new album Player Piano available for your streaming pleasure. It even provides Dayve Hawk's own track-by-track guide to the record, in which he reveals the influences, and meanings behind his thought process.

It was quiet an interesting read to gauge his thoughts about his new album and the questions of why he thought that way. I like what he said about his one track "Humming", he said:

" I think I'm always trying to make my music sound to lesser and greater degrees like field recordings. I don't want to make a song that sounds like that song you heard on the radio; I want to make a song that sounds like that moment you heard the song on the radio."

I couldn't agree more on this thought. What I like about this new album is that each song has a certain feel to it. It's like each track has a life and a thought to each arrangement of sound. Each song has its own playful and twisted turns, wrong-headed arrangements and some unusual instrumentation. Memory Tapes is also one who doesn't use any sequencing software and each instrument was played by him in his home studio for this album.

Hawk's will also be debuting the new album live this summer with a full band and the Player Piano album will be released on July 5th on Something in Construction Records. Click here to listen to the whole album or check out three songs below from the new album.

Yes I Know by Memory Tapes
Wait In The Dark by Memory Tapes
Today Is Our Life by Memory Tapes