Matare - Attach Your Memories

​Matare

Attach Your Memories
self-released; 2025

By Jamie Funk
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Matare’s “Attach Your Memory,” the lead single from the upcoming Extinction Burs, is a hazy beam of light that lands somewhere between shoegaze nostalgia and coastal daydream. Based in Atlanta but recording in Sarasota, Florida, Matare taps into a breezy, salt air energy that feels worlds away from the city. The song carries a sense of ease, not in a lazy way, but in the way memory sometimes softens the edges of everything. From the first listen, I felt like I was being pulled into a warm, slow motion flashback that somehow belongs to me even though I know it does not.

The track opens with washed out synths and reverb heavy guitar tones that immediately place it in a late 80s to early 90s context. I was hearing shades of The Cure and The Jesus and Mary Chain, maybe even a bit of Ride or early Slowdive. It is not just the textures, it is the mood: romantic, a little detached, and humming with a quiet longing.

Structurally, “Attach Your Memory” is pretty straightforward. The rhythm sticks to a reliable 4/4 pulse, the guitars ride a lot of root notes, and the bassline does exactly what it needs to do, hold everything together without drawing attention to itself. There is something comforting in how simple it all is. Nothing pushes too hard, but it also never gets dull. It just floats along, carrying you with it.

What I appreciated most was how cohesive the whole thing felt. Matare knows what kind of song this is and does not try to make it more than it needs to be. It is dreamy but grounded, familiar but not derivative. It fits neatly into the lineage of post punk and shoegaze without sounding like a throwback. There is clarity in the production that gives the track some lift, but it still keeps enough haze to feel emotionally loose around the edges.

If you are into shimmering guitar tones, melancholic melodies, and that particular kind of emotional ambiguity that defines the best shoegaze and dream pop, this song will sit right with you. “Attach Your Memory” does not reinvent anything, but it does what it sets out to do with style and a quiet confidence. I am looking forward to hearing where Matare takes it from here.

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