My Review: Memoria - From The Bones

 Memoria - From The Bones

It's been four years since the astonishing debut Cravings, and it seems impossible to believe: the second album From The Bones is superior to it, finding in the complicity of producer Rikard Lindh a new energy to give Memoria a greater range of possibilities, to deepen the sound and widen the musical boundaries.

One dreams in the dark from the electronic epidermis, placed on the wings of a Synthwave that is both romantic and decadent, because it is undeniable that there are shadows (never excessive, let's be clear) in these castles of notes that cross time. Songs that emphasise her voice, a bubble feather in the night wind, as it soars, dragging a delightful music that thrives on its contemporaneity, but has a glorious past in its internal circuits. One dances, elegantly, with a refined propensity for dreaming that drags one's legs towards imaginative spaces (Girl), to then have a cup of tea with Along The Sea, a mantra that seems to have come out of the second album by The Human League  compared to which it presents a greater vocal theatricality, then touching on territories dear to Björk.

As you advance in listening, everything leads you to open your imagination, in the absolute certainty that the suitcases of the mind are constantly filled with encounters that make the body float towards weightlessness, ending up leaving on the skin the sensation of a work that purifies the soul.

There is no doubt about it: you will listen to a record that will fuel your desire to take a holiday from torment and you will succeed...

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld

Salford

5 Giugno 2023

https://memoriasthlm.bandcamp.com/album/from-the-bones