Los Angeles (USA)-based dark experimental electronic act Thief unveiled the title track of the upcoming album, Bleed, Memory, which is scheduled for release on 19 April via Prophecy Productions. When the ghosts of the past come to haunt us, are they real or figments of our imagination? This is one of the questions raised by Thief's melancholic candlelight video featuring the title track "Bleed, Memory".

"In this trip hop ballad, harpsichord, and sawtooth oscillators sculpt the stage for the story of haunted memories of a love long lost", mastermind Dylan Neal reveals. "My new album Bleed, Memory also serves as a means of reconciling my father's dementia as I explored my own mind's cunning to mix the real and the fantasy. Did you know that poltergeists don't haunt a location, but a person? Memory is a poltergeist."

Dementia is a thief. It robs its victims piece by piece of their memory, identity, family and friends, and often enough even their human dignity. On their fourth full-length album, Bleed, Memory Los Angeles-based electronic experimentalists Thief explore the theme of 'memory' both lyrically and musically, which runs as a bold dotted line throughout the album. The solo project's mastermind, Dylan Neal, was largely inspired for this album after witnessing his father, who had recently been diagnosed with dementia, transition from bouts of forgetfulness and confusion to acute episodes of false memories, delusions, visions, and strange behaviour.

The unique approach, amalgamating musical elements from ambient, industrial, choral music, black metal, and trip-hop, among other influences, is brought into a new sonic experience, that has granted Thief a cult status among the initiated. Link