Memo: “Separate Leaves/This Is the Line”

2012 is shaping up to be a busy year for Memo Guerra. Apart from serving as the brains behind Austin, TX based label Abstrakt Muzak, the Monterrey, Mexico born factotum is also crafting music under a trinity of freshly minted monikers: dreamy and lyrical pop tunes as Memo, ambient experimentalism as Cristo, and dancefloor bangers Cheap Talk. Memo’s take on gently phased out and thoroughly dreamy pop is in full effect on “Separate Leaves/This Is the Line.” The melodies and textures are complex, but the song manages to avoid feeling overly constructed, with a simple drum line beating out in a steady whisper, even as tight vocal harmonies and guitar picking ride over and eventually submerge beneath miniaturized swells of synthand strings. Gentle atmospherics abound. There’s some sort of not so psychedelic sitar thing happening here, too. And it all works. Recommended as the soundtrack to your next slow motion dream sequence.

Memo: “Separate Leaves/This Is the Line”

Watch for more from Memo G. and his various aliases on Abstrakt Muzak and his always trusty Souncloud

Written by Luke Carrell