Controlling Crowds Part IV
1 Pills
2 Lines
3 The Empty Bottle
4 Remove
5 Come On Get High
6 Thought Conditioning
7 The Feeling Of Losing Everything
8 Blood In Numbers
9 To The End
10 Pictures
11 Lunar Bender
mostly new songs. I need to revisit CC's again just to get an idea if it should remain as high on my 2009 Albums Index as it is. But adding this is something to consider I suppose. A stream is nice, but hopefully this will leak soon too. Street Date is soon (if not already) but a US release of it or ANY other of Archive's albums is puzzling.
link to buy it on their official site.
original 3/28/09 2:35PM
the whole thing can be streamed on their myspace right now:
http://myspace.com/archiveuk
I'd recommend this album as it reminds me at times of Woven's "Designer Codes" album from last year. It often seems like a 76minute soundtrack like DC's was. It's more of a departure from some of Archive's work in the past like "You All Look the Same to Me" and "Noise." There's isn't as much prog rock, and more trip-hop. But the songs are still there, and it consistently keeps your attention, that it doesn't seem as long as the 1hour and change it clocks in at.
Here's my notes I wrote down the other day (sorry for the caps)
1 Controlling Crowds - "I'm sick of the controlling crowds, here they come"
2 Bullets1st single. Catchy.
3 Words on Signs - "There's no-bod-dee here for me right now-ow-ow"
4 Danger Visit - "so much writing on the wall" 10x's...sweet bass-line..nice effects on the pedals and repeated vocal-choruses "sing along, sing along, sing along, sing it"
5 Quiet Time - hip-hop..ambient wall-of-sound almost like Marillion..great build of energy
6 Collapse Collide - sad melody reminds me of Neverending White Lights..female vox..GREAT WALL-OF-SOUND AMBIENCE THAT BUILDS..GREAT ATMOSPHERE
7 Clones - NICE GUITAR RIFF/SYNTH COMBO W/ DISTORTION GOING IN AND OUT
8 Bastardised Ink - hip-hop..LIKE THE RHYTHM ON THE SYNTHS..VOX ARE BORDERLINE SINGING
9 Kings of Speed - ANOTHER NICE PIECE THAT BUILDS TEXTURALLY AND W/ LAYERS..ELECTRONIC DRUMS? OR DRUM MACHINE?..SOME BELLS AT THE END
10 Whore - FEMALE VOX..PIANO..NICE HUMMING IN THE OUTRO
11 Chaos - GREAT VOCAL HARMONIES W/ PIANO..THEN STRINGS LATER..EPIC BALLAD
12 Raised to the Ground - HIP-HOP..NICE TEXTURES AND DISTORTION WITH THE SYNTHS..FAT SYNTHS..REMINDS ME OF DJ SHADOW
13 Funeral - MOODY ENDING PIECE
A LOT OF THIS ALBUM SOUNDS LIKE REMIXES
82/100 and 5th place currently on the '09 AotY race.
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