Memorials have shared the second single, “Wildly Remote”, off their upcoming album “All Cloud Bring Not Rain” out March 27th via Fire Records.

Matthew Simms shared this about the song: “We started this song in a really clichéd way, in a sound check! It was at a memorable gig in Brest, a beautiful port town on the western-most tip of France. Brittany has embraced us, and we love playing there! We wanted to try to capture, on the recording, an intimacy and atmosphere that we have found to be an important part of playing live, when, amongst the noisier outbursts, come quiet, gentle moments. It’s the juxtaposition of the two and the twists and turns we take between them that we hope keep things interesting!

I feel there is a deceptive simplicity to it all, but especially in the word play of the chorus, expressing a notion of something true but also not quite realised or perhaps out of reach…


For recording, we tried a few approaches, but it was clear to us that the song should be the focus, and we wanted the sound to be warm and upfront. The electric guitar is run through an old leslie speaker that blurs the edges beautifully, and the saxophone tape loop was the ideal twist! The verse and chorus are both based around the same 3-chord sequence, so we knew we wanted it to go somewhere else in the middle. These incidental moments almost always come together quickly and instinctively, if they’re going to work. The tape loop solo seemed to fit instantly as an unconventional sound and performance, taking its place in an otherwise quite conventional spot for a solo in an instrumental section. The tape machine gets its time to shine!”