Remember Remember - Remember Remember

Watching Remember Remember construct a gorgeous wall of looped percussion using the most mundane of objects (sellotape, scissors and staplers) is something you are unlikely to forget. The track in question, Fountain/Mountain, forms the epic two-part centrepiece of this eponymous debut for Rock Action. Within nine minutes it provides a dewy early-morning face wash, followed by a breakfast of clouds before careering off on a soaring flight along the Earth’s inner atmosphere. The name is no doubt a nod to the repetitious nature of their recording: banks of looped, eddying guitar motifs, cascading pianos, flurries of duelling woodwind and snow-crisp xylophone all vie for attention, but snugly fit into a cyclical and dream-like whole. All of which are, seemingly, compacted into just one facet for the 30 minute, four-tiered finale Imagining Things, dwarfing all the grandeur that has come before it. At this exponential rate of increase, Remember Remember will have landed on the first glacier on the moon by Easter. [Darren Carle]