Memoryhouse - "When You Sleep" (video)

Though the lead singer looks terminally bored in this video, this is truly gorgeous stuff. Translated from granular distortion and marble-mouthed vocals into something discernible, even terrestrial, Memoryhouse’s cover of My Blood Valentine’s “When You Sleep” still feels synchronal to the original. Like the Scissor Sisters’ disco take on 1979 pop-prog, Memoryhouse supplant shoegaze for something that could of floated out of some liminal space between the K Records and Red House Painters axis. Actually, there’s something about the piano line too that suggests this cut could have been the perfect addition to Jon Brion’s soundtrack for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Memoryhouse have dissected the bittersweet dynamics of MBV’s harsh sound and extracted just the sweet, but it turns out that the sweet’s pretty delectable all on its own.