Düsseldorf duo Sequence Of Events announce their debut album ‘The Art Of Memory’ on Zürich’s Subject To Restrictions Discs, releasing 6th June 2025. The first single, ‘Meagre Gardens’, is available now, with a second single, ‘Nature Hates Life’, dropping 30th April 2025. The full-length also includes their ‘TAR/Becomings’ EP, originally released on the label as a two-tracker in 2024.
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“Emerging from the fertile chaos of Düsseldorf’s Salon des Amateurs scene, Sequence of Events, the collaborative project of Deniz Saridas and Joshua Gottmanns, presents The Art of Memory, an album that feels both intimate and ungraspable, like recalling a dream that fades upon waking.
Rooted in the post-industrial landscapes of West Germany, The Art of Memory channels the bleak resilience of these environments into its sound. It’s a collage of kraut-infused electronics, shoegaze textures, and industrial pulses, filtered through a lens of introspective psychedelia.
“We don’t consciously break down or combine genres, everything is interwoven, like chemistry. Some reactions happen immediately, others take years under pressure.” – Sequence Of Events
From the opening track TAR, with its stoic vocals and drum-heavy propulsion, to the robotic Meagre Gardens, where autotuned chants coil around unconventional drum programming, the album moves like a fever dream through fragmented memories. Soul Divider unfolds like a cinematic journey through yearning and desire, its repetitive pulses echoing the ache of unfulfilled longing, while Nature Hates Life distills pop music through the eyes of a killjoy: “Kurt Cobain on an AKAI MPC2000,” as the band describes it. Even moments of tenderness, like the drifting Becomings, shimmer with absolute sensuality: a seductive exploration of presence defined by absence. We lift each other up and hold each other down.” – Subject To Restrictions Discs
Sequence Of Events ‘The Art Of Memory’ LP lands 6th June 2025 via Subject To Restrictions Discs. Single ‘Meagre Gardens’ is available now, with ‘Nature Hates Life’ releasing 30th April 2025.
Tracklist
01 TAR
02 Soul Divider
03 A Hollow Drum
04 Tame
05 Nature Hates Life
06 Something In Your Touch
07 OC
08 Meagre Gardens
09 Becomings
10 Closed Circuit
11 Snakes Behind The Cushions
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