Review + Photos: Memoryhouse at the Bottleneck on Thursday, August 26

“It’s uh, different,” said Memoryhouse guitarist Evan Abeele, introducing a new song late during the band’s performance at the Bottleneck Thursday night.

Not quite.

For some, the hazzzzy headphone music of Memoryhouse will entrance listeners with its multiple evocations of memory and dizzying, glacial ruminations (as it did to much of the paltry crowd). However, for me, the band’s repetitive sonic landscape formula wore thin, and there were moments where I honestly found myself bored.