Memory Device: Vinyl LP Baba Ali but still feels exceptional

but still feels exceptional

as pointed and as poignant as anything he’s ever recorded

The reissue collection includes the band's 2004 self-titled debut album

Largely self-recorded on an old four track tape machine by eels leader Mark Oliver Everett aka E in his los angeles basement

Memory Device: Vinyl LP Baba Ali but still feels exceptionalThough most debuts are the culmination of a lifetime of influences and experiences, few artists succeed in mapping their musical journey quite as vividly as Baba Ali has on Memory Device. Tracing his Nigerian heritage, an adolescence absorbing No Wave and the hip hop on NYCs Hot 97, time immersed in the techno scene in Berlin, and the experimental punk spirit of his current base in London, Memory Device is an enthralling introduction to a musician who