Immaterialize Announce Debut LP & Share "Cheesecake Factory" via Angel Tapes
Immaterialize is the “pillowy” (Bandcamp) duo of Lipsticism (aka Alana Schachtel) and DJ Immaterial (aka Erik Fure). Following a trail of singles which received praise from The Needle Drop, The Line of Best Fit, Brooklyn Vegan and more, Immaterialize return to announce their debut album, Perfect, out January 23rd via Angel Tapes / Fire Talk and present their new single/video, “Cheesecake Factory.” Perfect is a compact, nine-track debut that straddles an atemporal ambiance with hypermodern references. “Cheesecake Factory” is an early album standout, growing into a blown-out anthem with its heart on its sleeve. “Normal night, 13, Cheesecake Factory,” Schachtel begins, before the track reaches its cathartic climax. Like many of the tracks across Perfect, “Cheesecake Factory” confronts memory, grief and death through shrouds of evocative cloud-pop.
Perfect — the debut album from Chicago pop experimentalists Immaterialize — is over a decade in the making. Schachtel and Fure’s years of sporadic collaboration gave way to their emergence in 2024 with a pair of songs, lifted from a larger batch that they were keen on polishing. These sessions resulted in Perfect, a debut album that sounds like nothing else produced in Chicago, the duo’s homebase and epicenter for all things indie and rock. And while these deep roots can be traced back to Perfect, the shapes Immaterialize twist form a vision entirely their own.
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