Archive - The False Foundation (2015-2016)

I haven't checked this one out just yet, but with another calendar year, and another Archive album coming, there's no questioning how prolific they are. I checked an interview with Steven Wilson per YouTube the other day and he mentioned how up until the early 90's, artists would always release at least 1 album a year. So it's not that weird. Kevin Gilbert used to say the same thing. A professional musician should be able to spend 12 months writing/recording etc to release an album (10 songs I recall he mentioned).


That being the case, the best thing Archive has done in recent years, I think was Axiom and Controlling Crowds before that. I did enjoy Restriction from 2015 as well, although the whole electronic/industrial thing I think maybe is a work in progress for them, in that I am waiting for them to put out something better. Although CC is 1 of my favorite records of the last 5-10 years certainly.

The video below for "Driving in Nails" and the Preorder for the October 7th release is linked on their site.


1. Blue Faces
2. Driving In Nails
3. The Pull Out
4. The False Foundation
5. Bright Lights
6. A Thousand Thoughts
7. Splinters
8. Sell Out
9. Stay Tribal
10. The Weight Of The World

http://www.archiveofficial.uk/
Picadilly Records 

Archive - Restriction (2014-2015)

12/1/14 6:25PM

Archive released the soundtrack LP Axiom last Summer, so to see them put something else out soon just caught me by surprise. Although, the Axiom soundtrack wasn't incredibly long, and they tend to write and record a lot of stuff in spurts, hence the 3 or 4 versions of Controlling Crowds?

I should be checking out those 3 early shared tracks below sometime this evening (haven't yet, gf is playing a marathon of her/my new favorite YouTube channel Swoozie per a sample from a WatchMojo list).

But certainly I am excited to hear this record, which is released on January 12th.



1 Feel It 3:16
2 Restriction 4:00
3 Kid Corner 3:39
4 End of Our Days 4:52
5 Third Quarter Storm 5:26
6 Half Built Houses 3:31
7 Riding in Squares 6:34
8 Ruination 3:51
9 Crushed 5:55
10 Black and Blue 3:44
11 Greater Goodbye 6:08
12 Ladders 5:03
13 All the Time [bonus track] 2:46

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