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Memory Dissolves is the second single from the Ozark Mountains based duo, Dover Lights, consisting of lyricist/composer, Daniel Brinker, and producer/arranger, Andy Moore. The single precedes their upcoming self-titled debut album Dover Lights (release date January 15th, 2021). The song is a Post-punk study of memory, dreams, and the transient nature of life and love in the post-atomic age. Brinker searches for unattainable youth through anthemic lyrics (with an intimate vocal command from the realm of David Bowie and Peter Murphy) while the drums tick away like an accelerated clock (with a Fairlight drum machine collapsing over the primary beat). The driving metallic bass propels the elusive subject matter forward, ringing out like early Post-punk acts, Wire and Joy Division, as Moore’s cavernous grinding guitars echo back to The Cure and the raw early years of U2.
“It might be a radio hit in an alternate universe or on a world with a dying sun. The lyrics cover a group of liminal and intangible ideas: the way lovers define each other based on memory, the letting go of the desire to possess another person, and the exploration of feelings that are the last remnant of faded memories from teenage years. The chorus came to me as I witnessed a young couple embracing with the view of our local nuclear power plant, directly behind them, as the steam-cloud drifted up from its cooling tower. It’s the only song on our debut album that I would say consists mainly of primary colors; however, the breakdown goes down a gothic tunnel of roaring synthesizers and dense counterpoint warfare on the guitars. The lyrics paint images of togetherness and romantic resolve in spite of a world constantly degrading through entropy — encapsulated in the line ‘glass sands of black’ in the second verse (which refers to trinitite glass created from desert sand transformed by a nuclear explosion).
The video delves heavily into nostalgia. It was shot on a VHS camcorder by my brother when we were teenagers in 2001. The film had degraded over the years as I only recently had it digitized this past summer. The repurposed footage was originally a short documentary of our home town. We were just teenagers having fun at the time, and I decided to keep the playful shots of us and our friends in the music video.”
Memory Dissolves comes from Dover Lights’ self-titled debut album, Dover Lights, release date: January 15th, 2021.
To celebrate the album release, Dover Lights will follow Memory Dissolves with a music video for the first song on their album, Prisoners, on the album release date: Jan. 15th, 2021.
Woke to an orange street lamp, and the world wasn’t here;
No silhouette of your figure to cancel my fear.
Ever near, ever out, every shadow, every thing,
I keep trying in memory to fill it all in.
Your violent kiss, I will have to repay;
You constantly give, now it’s time that you take.
Live it up, going out, in young resolve,
Walk with me as a memory dissolves.
We swam far enough, then we had to get back,
On the shores of the night world,
Glass sands of black.
Ever near, ever out, every shadow, every exit—
Keep trying in memory to find what connects it.
Your violent kiss, I will have to repay;
You constantly give, now it’s time that you take.
Live it up, going out, in young resolve,
Walk with me as a memory dissolves.
Interlocked,
As a memory dissolves:
Walk with me as a memory dissolves,
(Dreams are not something you should fall into)
Walk with me as a memory dissolves,
(You swim to the surface, but you can’t break through)
Walk with me as a memory dissolves,
(Dreams are not something you should fall into)
Walk with me as a memory dissolves,
(You swim to the surface, but you can’t break through)
Walk with me as a memory dissolves,
(Dreams are not something you should fall into)
You swim to the surface, but you can’t break through;
Walk with me as a memory dissolves,
(Dreams are not something you should fall into)
credits
released December 3, 2020
Released December 3, 2020
Daniel Brinker - Vocals, Synthesizer, Drum machines
Andy Moore - Guitars, Bass
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