After nearly a decade of on-and-off collaboration, art-pop musician Alana Schachtel (a.k.a. Lipsticism) and producer Erik Fure (a.k.a. DJ Immaterial) began releasing singles as Immaterialize at the beginning of last year. Today we’re learning that the last two tracks they’ve dropped—“Will You Stay with Me” and “It’s a Vision”—will appear on their debut album Perfect, which arrives January 23 via Fire Talk and its Angel Tapes imprint. The record was mastered by past collaborator and fellow Chicago-based outsider artist Fire-Toolz.
The duo is also sharing a third single from the release today with “Cheesecake Factory,” an avant-garde dream-pop track that inhabits a surrealist space like the ambiguously ornate decor of the restaurant chain it’s named after. “When Erik showed me the early workings of this song, it instantly felt reminiscent of a certain time in my life,” shares Schachtel of the song’s origins. “This was a time heavily influenced by loss, and the lyrics explore grief in a public setting, experiencing something so new and abnormal for oneself in very ‘normal’ and business-as-usual settings.”
That’s right: Last week it was Marietta’s Evan Lescallette dissociating alone in a mall food court and this week it’s Immaterialize doing the same at Cheesecake Factory, specifically. Zone out to the music video covertly set at the restaurant below, and pre-order Perfect here.
