MEMORY ECHOES by Comaduster

After nearly a six year hiatus since the acclaimed album DARKER MATTER (FiXT), Comaduster returns independently with the new full-length MEMORY ECHOES, a fractured, cinematic, and emotionally volatile exploration of memory, nostalgia, and speculative science fiction.

This record functions simultaneously as a standalone audio experience and a conceptual framework — a sonic artifact that emerged from a speculative science fiction premise in which a universe altering event,
the LIMINAL ZERO EVENT, reshapes the very structure of space, time, and memory. This narrative isn’t presented overtly, but rather infused into the music through tone, form, texture, and haunting resonance.

The conceptual premise itself started as an offshoot thought experiment written during the writing of 2017’s ‘Solace’ album. A high science fiction concept narrative about a recursion of reality and identity along profound time scales. It was abandoned as a narrative related to the Solace universe, and became a writing tool for material that was to appear as an anachronistic Comaduster side project. Much of this music was reimagined in 2019-2021 and 2023 — and the sci-fi premise was re-introduced.

The LIMINAL ZERO EVENT is imagined as a sudden phase shift in cosmic inflation, expanding spacetime in infinite dimensions beyond the speed of light. It leaves behind a skeletal structure of reality, frozen in fragments, with the Planck length becoming infinite. The fundamental forces remain locally coherent relative to each absolute point, but only through personal gravitational memory anchors known as Liminal Zero Points (LZPs). Reality and it’s parameters dilate relativistically like time.
Memory itself becomes an aspect of gravitational force — the quantum effects of gravity now brought to a macro scale. As one moves through the resulting Liminal Nether, coherency with others and oneself fractures. Paradoxes bloom along relative manifolds. Mimics form—versions of the self that could not be, yet still influence and haunt.

Throughout MEMORY ECHOES, older versions of songs emerge like ghosts. Hooks appear before their canonical arrival. Degraded stems twist and re-emerge. Memory is recursive. Derivation is deliberate. Every song contains elements of every other.

The production is murky and subversive by design. Coherence is not guaranteed. Previous forms bleed through. The signal is jammed.

The album also features a number of collaborators, each chosen for their unique emotional voice and presence. Mari Kattman (Metropolis Records) appears on "BLACK SUN RAYS" and "HOMEWARD,"
the latter of which also includes Webb Cardinal — Réal’s father—on classical and acoustic guitars. Alex Reed (Seeming, Artoffact Records) brings lyrical depth and dissonance to "THE LESS YOU KNOW," layered with Elijah Hennig’s guitar and sonic texture. Elijah also contributes across several tracks throughout the album.

Tonal and visual influences include puzzle-box storytelling like Netflix’s DARK and Maniac, analog and liminal horror à la Kane Pixels and SCP lore, the dream-associative surrealism of David Lynch, and FromSoftware’s environmental narrative logic.

The official artwork for both the album and its accompanying singles was created by Seth Broman of grymlife.com and ONSET AUDIO. The visuals vividly encapsulate themes of transformation, recursion, and altered states of memory.

Despite its speculative framework, MEMORY ECHOES is not just a concept album. It stands on its own as a collection of deeply personal and expressive music that explores human grief, nostalgia, sonder, memory, and identity. The science fiction is there to crack the structure open. The emotional core bleeds out on its own.

Within this framework, each track is a window into a lived experience from this fractured reality. Often from multiple perspectives at once. Your point of departure to listen to the record without spoilers is here. An audio log transcription and lyric read through is provided with this download.

This is the fractured sound of what remains.
This is MEMORY ECHOES.

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