The Lees of Memory

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The Lees Of Memory sprang to life off the playback head of a 4-track cassette recorder in August 2012... and launched headlong into the process of writing what would eventually become their anticipated debut album entitled Sisyphus Says. Guitarist/Vocalist Brandon Fisher and multi-instrumentalist and singer John Davis have both a 25-plus-year friendship and a musical kinship cemented first in the damp basements and dive bars of their native Knoxville, TN with punk quartet The Used (posthumously re-named The Used To Be for legal reasons, with Davis on drums), and later behind the twin-engine guitars that propelled the group Superdrag to international acclaim and the Buzz Bin with their hit "Sucked Out" and a sizable body of work that still holds water today. In the interim, Davis released a pair of solid releases under his own name, made his mark as an in-demand sideman and session player, and did time in hardcore outfit Epic Ditch (whose records the Nashville Scene described as "...right up there with OFF's First Four EPs in terms of tight, concise, contemporary 'skate or die' statements.") The Lees Of Memory didn't yet exist when Fisher and Davis got together in John's home studio (High Bias!!! A Cassette-Based Operation) to flesh out one of Brandon's latest songs; the result ("Deliquesce") stoked a fire of creativity that soon saw the pair moving on separate, parallel tracks, but composing two very sympathetic batches of material. The decision to join forces and continue m

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Sisyphus Says

Moon Shot

The Blinding White Of Nothing At All

Unnecessary Evil (STEREO EDITION)

Unnecessary Evil

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Soft Places b/w Within A Dream II

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When The Roses Bloom

Stay Freee / Grave Mistake

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Soft Places / Within a Dream II (RSD Mix)

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We Are Siamese / Open Your Arms

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2014 Winter Sampler

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