Memry-Man is a two-piece instrumental rock band based in Austin, TX comprised of Mario Alvarado (drums) and Robert Howard (guitar/bass). Their release Technasma is a four-song EP that mixes elements of post-rock, math-rock and more.
It’s an intense release and doesn't let up. There is an onslaught of instrumentation along with very technical and precise performances. They get going with “Dizzy GoRound” which is an apt name. It begins with delayed guitar which begins to create this psychedelic swirl. The drum work is impressive with metronome-like playing that is also creative. A little after the one-minute mark the song starts to really ramp up and creates a sense of vertigo, hence the name of the song. It gets more crazy after that as they seem to outdo themselves with crescendo after crescendo. The band keeps that momentum going with the adrenaline inducing “Ultra Max” which has a bit more of a grounded groove. That being said the song soon gets torn to shreds with hair splitting lead guitar and an amazing performance from the drummer. By the two-and-a-half-minute mark the band is again toppling every crescendo that it can one after another. The delayed guitar is back on “When Cats Attack” and oh man did I love the bass line on this song. This song is slick and I just loved the groove. It is also arguably the most post-rock sounding with a band like Explosions in the Sky coming to mind. The band finds some of their most epic moments on the EP at around the two-and-a half-minute mark. It’s like a firework show and somehow they find a way out of it which leads to the outro. They close with the highlight “Gravitron.” I really wanted to see what the drummer was doing here. The performance was crazy technically. I loved how distorted and hard this song sounded. It’s almost mechanical and sounded like a robot army charging on a battlefield. The song goes into a number of interesting areas a lot of which I wasn’t expecting. They turn on a dime so quickly. This band tears it up. Turn this one up loud.
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