Kevin Herig's sweet "Barcelona" as re-imagined by Memoryy is a lush multicolored dream

Kevin Herig


Kevin Herig's indie pop sweet Barcelona as remixed by Memoryy (aka Shaun Hettinger) is a complete re-imagining. While the original did feel more spartan organic indie pop, Memoryy infuses the core loveliness with lush doses of synths, electronic pop ambiance and dream pop drones. It is a heady, hyper-realistic tone that works so well. Herig's beautiful poetry does not get lost in the sort of Porches' kaleidoscope of sounds. Which do I like more? I like them equally because the reshaping by Memoryy is so compete that the two versions seem like two different songs and I guess they are.

-Robb Donker Curtius

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Kevin Herig · Barcelona (Memoryy Remix)

THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:

Kevin Herig

“Give it all away” was released in the Fall of 2013, followed with "All You Can't Control" in March of 2016. Kevin is also the Founder and Director of Rock 101 New Mexico, a music program in his hometown of Albuquerque, New Mexico that aims to educate and empower youth.

From Musically Speaking by Mel Minter:

Now that singer/songwriter/guitarist Kevin Herig’s good friend (and backing vocalist on this album) Meredith Wilder has headed north to Colorado, Herig can quite reasonably lay claim to the mantle of the area’s sweetest voice—warm, intimate, and soothing—reminiscent of early Paul Simon. That’s not the only influence you’ll hear on All You Can’t Control. There are echoes of CSN, ’50s Memphis, and the Beatles, too—but it’s all Herig.

The six original songs are so well and tightly crafted, with such fine details so perfectly placed—a bell here, a brief harmony there, a slide up the guitar’s neck to carry you to the next verse—that you might want to take them in your hands and turn them over and over for the sheer tactile pleasure of it. The music is never hurried, and the musicians—Wilder, Kyle Ruggles (bass), Jeff Bell (drums), Brendan Brejcha (piano and organ), Chris Tenerowicz (slide)—play with a restrained laconic fervor that deepens the emotional content. Herig explores relationships—good ones, bad ones, equivocal ones, impossible ones—and memory through the lens of singular details.

In “Honey Jar,” he grapples with uncertainty: “These lines we hook and throw, I follow through the air, into the water/But from there, I do not see where they will go.” In “Contrails,” he can’t escape what he cannot have: “It shows on my face like a breath in cold air./I fall through the fog, and I’ll stay suspended there./I brood in the truth,/I can never have you./How long must you hold on to me?” In “Aptos,” then and now simultaneously inhabit a special place: “I go and stand there all the time,/my toes up to the edge, my hands clenched to a rusty fence./I look down from the cliff and see some kids are playing with/A baseball bat washed in with old debris./One of those kids was me.” The crisp production, shared between Herig and Tenerowicz, finds an airy spaciousness that allows the material to breathe and invites the listener in.

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"Memoryy makes metallic future-pop for lovers."
-NYLON

"Redefining Synth-Pop."
-Huffington Post

"Over the past five years Memoryy has developed quite the impressive synth pop portfolio."
-Indie Shuffle

A long-time staple of Brooklyn's Chillwave / Electro-Pop scene, MEMORYY bested music's biggest names to nab the coveted Netflix Chelsea Handler theme song.

Now a full-time composer & studio owner in Albuquerque NM, Memoryy (Shaun Hettinger) is working on his sixth album - a follow-up to his "2017 Best Pop Album" (NMMA).

He's written for clients like YouTube, Revlon, Gatorade & Amazon, topped HypeMachine dozens of times, charted on iTunes & received press from the likes of HuffPo & NYLON.


For more information:

http://www.memoryymusic.com

http://www.neonmoonstudios.com