Memphis
Part of The Upper North Side Canadian Music Series

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"Memphis turns in A-list, proper chamber-pop" - Pitchfork



Memphis' sophomore LP, A Little Place In The Wilderness, by Stars singer Torquil Campbell and Chris Dumont features Metric' James Shaw (bass, trumpet, drums, mix) and Josh Trager of the Sam Roberts Band (drums). With gentle horns and strings that swell in almost every track, A Little Place In The Wilderness is evocative of innocence and the sprawling daydreams of childhood. Dreamy and foreboding, it is an intricate record from a South-meets-North duo that is the ideal soundtrack to finding a peaceful place amid chaos. Their sound is swathed in velvety textures, a consonance of dreamy strains of strings and brass, but the beats and synths take a backseat to tender riffs and spirited orchestration, and when the tempo spikes, pop bliss flows forth. Completely overwhelming in scope and texture the new opus is the sound of little epiphanies on a collective consciousness level, suggesting that the duo has found sanctity in A Little Place In The Wilderness.