MEMORYHOUSE took form as a collaborative project meant to serve as an artistic outlet for composer Evan Abeele and photographer Denise Nouvion.

The new album is called "The Slideshow Effect" and its title speaks to what hasn't changed for MEMORYHOUSE: their continuing interest in the synthesis of the aural and the visual.

It refers to the photographic/cinematic technique of zooming and panning to animate still images, often used in documentary film making to give movement to archival photographs.

The 10-track album, produced by Abeele, with assistance from friend, collaborator, and occasional MEMORYHOUSE bassist Barzin Hassani Rad, finds MEMORYHOUSE heading toward a new clarity in composition as well as sound; a more organic direction for artists who are, in their own words, transitioning from a "bedroom recording project" into a fully realized band.

Nouvion's voice has never been more present than on the new album, which finds her stepping away from Memoryhouse's past reverbed sound in favor of a more upfront, and intimate vocal approach.

They half-seriously refer to their new sound as "Taylor Swift with Built to Spill as her backing band." However "The Slideshow Effect" might be described, we fully-seriously love it.

" It's an instantly inviting affair: instrumentalist Evan Abeele and vocalist Denise Nouvion deliver Mazzy Star-like melodies by way of contemporary bedroom pop that shares a lane with new labelmates Beach House."- SPIN Magazine ""The Years" plays like a shoegazer record minus the feedback, leaving just the reverbed loops and frostbitten vocals behind."The Years" may be awash in nostalgia, but far from inviting unfavorable comparisons, it mostly confirms that the past was indeed as good as you remember.

-Pitchfork