Memories Uninvited

One Less Reason delivers deep, meaningful hard rock on their new album, The Memories Uninvited. Fans got their first taste of this new material with the debut single, Where Were You? The song, like the new album, embraces the band's signature sound while launching the next chapter of OLR's remarkable success story. The result is an album that moves, song by song, from hard-hitting expressions of frustration and struggle to plaintive prayers for peace and reconciliation. Album opener Break Me and On The Way Down illustrate the former impulse, complete with shred-to-melodic-and-back vocal lines and sinister minor-key arrangements; the repeated refrain You weren't always like this in On The Way Down somehow reaches both the anger and sorrow implicit in the song's desperate performance. The album's gentler material remains rooted in heartwood, while branching out into more delicate arrangements. Keyboard-driven ballad One Day shows off One Less Reason's soulful, melodic side in an aching articulation of love lost, maybe for good. The stripped-down Rainmaker explores similar territory in a ghostly acoustic arrangement that somehow feels as heavy and hard as the most thunderous cuts on the record. The album was recorded at Tattooed Millionaire's studio in Memphis, formerly the famed Kiva Recording Studio and House of Blues Recoding Studio.