Elegiac Beat, by Public Memory

Elegiac Beat

by Public Memory

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cwilley Like a spookier Massive Attack with some incredibly catchy beats and icy atmospherics. This is the best Public Memory album so far and I've been following Mr. Topher's work since ERAAS.

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1.	Clocktower Époque 03:55	lyrics	buy track
The majesty don’t mind daedalus drowning At the peak of disbelief, see the lovers scrounging I am the last surprise, coming round your bend As a little lie grows up, you change the story On my street In the window Top of the staircase In the hallway
2.	Savage Grin 02:55	lyrics	buy track
In a storm cloud framed by moonlight Bated breath, we bowed The most hated, a late bloomer Got your candle blown Savage grin in the courthouse Tore the morning quiet Qualified the terror Had to phase you out See them change Mark of cain Hear the thunder clap Green eyed jungle cat Pretenders dressed in black Figurehead silhouette Till you chew your tongues Pay the piper, piss the bed I‘ve come to dry your wishing well
3.	Afterimage 03:41	lyrics	buy track
I hear them coming
4.	Cruel 03:56 video	lyrics	buy track
With a murmured esteem Stark raving queen A perfected oeuvre Wry ingenue In the skeleton’s hand I am dead on arrive Down with them in the dirt The whistle blows As I stumble in vain I guessed it again I elected to rule Someone better get paid Let the folk attend I don’t dare to be cruel I rused the school And cheapsters
5.	7 Floor 04:37	lyrics	buy track
Keep out of the seventh floor There’s a phantom that I adore Headlights in the willow trees Hear their footfalls through the leaves As I stumble out Autumn night Silent town Fumifugium with a murmur In the captain's clothes Savage grin Dull justice Long tongue in your reflection
6.	The Spider Starves 05:01	lyrics	buy track
Sinking like a stone Colored in magic The glad fact November’s long ascent Fingers so slender Surrender From the cold steps The top of the stairs Leaving on time Adding on time Ask me Cobweb château Tripping in the air Drooping in your chair Down on a knee The lectern’s aglow Avenue t You’ll never be free Christmas steps Snowed all night The statue’s face The spider starves
7.	No Shadow 03:33	lyrics	buy track
I won’t lift a hand if I can’t dream alone Withdraw the memory Shimmering to show they know Some day we’ll make it In the morning air, see it go Just a latent fascination The narrow way No shadow
8.	Far End Of The Courtyard 03:56	lyrics	buy track
I can’t decide which is the instinct that will change this Mid december driving home just after dark Saw you glancing over at the lake house Christmas party A foreign force, gone astray is peering through you Shrugging with a smile just a stooge in the discord Apparition at the far end of the courtyard Rapping on the door, test my faith until the morning Understand it’s not the outcome that you wanted No reign it’s over Lament a setting sun Bemoan the haters Trapped in the afterlife
9.	Tall In My Room 06:42	lyrics	buy track
In the air again Future full of faith and vapors Simmering inside Rapping on the door at daylight Damaged by the decades The hourglass is only draining Swallowed up the punchline No way to play the wreckage Lorelei again Pleading just to run from something Face without a voice Indifference of a raging ocean Sitting in this dark room As the years are slowly fading Fattened up with all that money Long tongue in your reflection
10.	CPL 593H 03:18	lyrics	buy track
Stuck on the lifestyle Cobras in the lighthouse Special time of leaving Mercy in my anger Saw the blood, stepbro Animal skull, reject his eyes Fought a little demon, said come behave now See the spirit; there’s no discussion You and I belong together I’m begging you, it’s low pressure Grown apart but never say never I’m so low So long gone, gone

about

NOTE: The digital variant will include a digital "Insert” with photos, lyrics & credits

Over the past seven years, Public Memory’s distinctive use of analog synthesizers, electronic beats mixed with organic percussion, lo-fi sound design, and gritty ambience has created a singularly eerie and shadowy world.

The first seconds of Public Memory’s new record, Elegiac Beat, thrust us immediately into that world. We are in media res, with a feeling of sudden movement from a sensible point A to B. Given some time however, we realize that there is something askew–a bit of brightness here, some shadows pushed aside, some jazz and funk amongst the dub and Krautrock. This is an unfamiliar, ambiguous mood that pushes Public Memory towards new ground. We still drift past the clouded lights and hollowed out buildings of previous albums, but with an occasional bounce in our step now, a bit of golden haze around the edges.

Elegiac Beat is between two places, and as it straddles the line between the two, we are uncertain if the light it brings shines directly from the sun, or if it is dimly reflected through that majestic ballroom world.

credits

released September 1, 2023

℗ + © 2023 felte
Written, Performed, Recorded, Mixed & Produced by Robert Toher
Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri @ Black Knoll Studio, NY
Cover Image by Moon Patrol
Photography, Other Images, Design & Layout by Robert Toher

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Supersonic

Paris, France
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I.BOAT

Bordeaux, France
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Le Molotov

Marseille, France
May 10

Sonic

Lyon, France
May 11

KuBa

Saarbrücken, Germany
May 13

Freakout Club

Bologna, Italy
May 14

Klub Močvara

Zagreb, Croatia
May 15

A38 Ship / A38 Hajó

Budapest, Hungary
May 16

Club Rhiz

Vienna, Austria
May 17

Klub Luc

Trencin, Slovakia
May 18

Punctum - Krásovka

Prague, Czech Republic
May 19

Wave-Gotik-Treffen

Leipzig, Germany

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