As We Suffer from Memory & Imagination
We're very excited to finally share our 2nd LP, 'As We Suffer From Memory & Imagination' in its entirety, with help from our great friends at Zegema Beach Records and Dog Knights Productions. Given the context of the date of this album's release, as well as recent events, we'd like to take this opportunity to echo the many voices decrying the prolonged history of discrimination and violence towards Black people, as well as calling for the abolition of police all across the world. We'd like to express our solidarity with all victims of racialized violence throughout history at the hands of the police, state, and white supremacy, as well as with those out in the streets demonstrating in pursuit of a world that is anti-racist, anti-capitalist, and without police. We feel that it is the duty of all artists, especially within our community of DIY musicians, social centers, and venues to utilize their platform, big or small, to bring awareness and accumulate resources towards this fight to the best of their ability. Therefore, we will be gathering all profits made from our portion of this pressing's physical sales, all digital sales and royalties, and any sales of shirts to be donated to TBD fund(s) assisting demonstrators with legal fees / supplies, as well as to organizations rendering mutual aid and community outreach. From May 15th, 2020 – December 4th, 2020, all the profits made from selling our records and merch was collected and donated to the following organizations: Reclaiming Our Homes Reclaim and Rebuild Our Community Fund Augies Union Workers Fund LA Tenants Union / Food Not Rent Solidarity Fund Koreatown Popular Assembly AWARE LA, The Bail Project People’s Freedom Fund Louisville Community Bail Fund Minnesota Freedom Fund Chicago Community Bond Fund Brooklyn Community Bail Fund Richmond Community Bail Fund and dozens of other bail funds across the US through The Bail Project and other bail fund donation aggregators. Over those 7 months, we were fortunate enough to be able to collect and send over $5100 in donations. We may restart our donation program as necessary in the future, but for now, from the bottom of our hearts, we thank each and every one of you that supported us in this endeavor. If you haven't already, we encourage you to check out and support the previously mentioned funds and organizations, thank you! - - - -
The Los Angeles group’s second album is a soul-scouring emotional purge that sets a new bar for screamo—and confirms the genre as one uniquely suited to a year as harrowing as this one.