New Track: “Neighborhood Watch” – Memory Tapes

“Neighborhood Watch” is the sprawling, divergent opener from Memory Tapes’ impending new album, Grace/Confusion out December 4th on Carpark Records. Dayve Hawk, the creative force behind Memory Tapes, has indicated that the title  refers to the album’s complex, dichotomous directions and his attempts to both rein in and embrace those tangents. Hawk’s experimental take on pop and dance emerges clearly in “Neighborhood Watch,” which utlizes lo-fi pop, samples, loops, clean acoustics, R&B grooves, dance rhythms, dark New Wave elements, and squealing synths. The track is killer. I replayed the change at four-and-a-half minutes three times in a row. Wow. Listen Below.