Over the past seven years, Public Memory’s distinctive use of analog synthesizers, electronic beats mixed with organic percussion, lo-fi sound design, and gritty ambience has created a singularly eerie and shadowy world.
The dreamy electronic project creates dense collages of dub, Krautrock and trip-hop while exploring loss, dreams and shared nostalgia. On albums such as 2018's Demolition, Toher uses little more than otherworldly vocals, a Korg synthesizer, guitar and field recordings to craft hallucinatory tracks that sound like they could evaporate at any moment, yet leave a lasting impact.
After spending much of the '90s in punk bands, Toher found some success with the post-rock group Apse, which released a pair of albums before disbanding in 2011. Toher and his former Apse bandmate Austin Stawiarz then foundeded ERAAS (the first signing to felte), a project that added pulsing electronics to the atmospheres of their previous band on 2012's self-titled debut and the following year's Initiation. ERAAS called it quits in 2013 and Robert began working on a set of songs that became the first Public Memory album titled Wuthering Drum and released in 2016.
