Former Superdrag frontman John Davis talked about his current band The Lees of Memory‘s with a forthcoming album. That album is finally just about ready. It’s called Unnecessary Evil, and several very cool pre-order bundles are available via PledgeMusic.
The latest installment in a ongoing series of Velocity Of Sound Records single releases by The Lees Of Memory!!!! This is the A-side, “All-Powerful You” and on the B-side, we go where no record’s gone before when the A-side plays… backwards, from the label out! Even the palindrome inscribed in the run-off matrix is backwards on the B-side. As for the song itself? We think it’s a mindbender… but you be the judge!
The band are John Davis: Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Synthesizer, Sampler, Mellotron, Tanpura, Sitar, Tambourine, Vocals. Brandon Fisher: Electric Guitar. Nick Slack: Drums.
Long before our debut album Sisyphus Says ever landed on your turntables and devices, we were busy writing the sequel…. Unnecessary Evil. We’re overjoyed to finally be able to offer it up for pre-order NOW and get your copy on its way ASAP. We’re also very proud to offer you some of the finest-quality handmade exclusives and fan experiences we know how to create.
Once again, we’ve teamed up with world-class producer Nick Raskulinecz & his team of experts at Rock Falcon TN to help make this musical conception a reality—with an assist from ace mixer Mike Purcell at County Q. Your Access Pass is your ticket to exclusive studio pics, videos, rough mixes & other Pledge-only content, and you’ll be able to download the music before anybody else does. Plus, we’ve got original artwork, exclusive shirt designs, autographed test pressings and much, much more to go along with it. Pre-order now in any format you choose!
One of the pre-order bundles includes a cassette with demos from the album, and the demo for “Squared Up” is out now. As John said in that interview, it’s certainly not shoegaze at all. It’s a lazy-Sunday acoustic song with some lightly psychedelic embellishment layered over it.
The band is also releasing a 7″ where the B-side plays the A-side backwards, from the label out. The A-side, “All-Powerful You,” has The Lees taking diving even more overtly into psych, with a trippy vibrato effect on John’s vocals and a sitar solo (and two different tanpuras). I personally applaud this new direction.
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