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Joined: June 07 2012
Location: Wakefield
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Points: 347
Posted: May 24 2014 at 03:54
They have become very passionate in their last few albums, they have 1 out Monday and the opening track blows me away around the 1.25 mark. It's like Massive attack meets Peter Gabriel.
Joined: November 26 2010
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Points: 342
Posted: May 25 2014 at 05:37
Really digging 'Again' from You Look All The Same To Me. Very prog (Floyd / PT influenced). I have listened to a number of their albums and this band dishes up a variety of music. 'Come on get high' from Controlling Crowds part IV is a simple track (more electronic than prog) but grows on you.
Joined: June 07 2012
Location: Wakefield
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Points: 347
Posted: May 25 2014 at 17:24
After I listened to Floyd to death I started on their bootlegs, demos and unreleased material to keep my interest up. I'm doing the same with Archive and have found some beauts!!!
Undeniably Camel around the 4.05 mark, whilst retaining that fresh Archive Trip Hop inspired prog trademark sound.
Joined: June 07 2012
Location: Wakefield
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Points: 347
Posted: May 26 2014 at 14:57
M27Barney wrote:
Very Floyd influenced - and isn't at all Camel at 4:10??? It's alright but I didn't think - WOW - must buy !!!
Camel Air born 2.26
Archive musically are very similar to Camel at times imo, progressive loops etc, but with a modern twist. Instead of the flute/panpipes Archive employ the cello and strings.
Joined: January 18 2014
Location: Mar Vista, CA
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Points: 4807
Posted: May 27 2014 at 10:29
Gee, I've never really thought of asking the north Londoner three doors north of me here in West L.A. what he thinks of the archive. Sounds like an interesting survey to pose to the patrons of the Cock and Bull pub down the street on Lincoln Blvd. between Venice and Santa Monica. I'd probably be told that I'm daft, though.
Joined: June 07 2012
Location: Wakefield
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Points: 347
Posted: May 27 2014 at 15:43
To be honest I think Archive want to create the magic of Echoes, Saucerful of Secrets, Mudmen and keep you waiting for the good bits.
Here at 2.55 the Cello Kicks in and you realise they are cut from the same cloth, at 3.10 the 2nd Cello kicks in evoking a bit of that rare teary-eyed emotion that came with listening to Pink Floyd's sheer brilliance.
Joined: June 20 2012
Location: Oklahoma
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Points: 7951
Posted: May 28 2014 at 12:53
Matthew _Gill wrote:
Strange thoughts, Archive don't really class themselves as anything but do make the point in interviews that their music is progressive, lol.
It seems more dance, pop or electronic than rock to me for the most part..
Surely this is progressive, it just seems to me a tribute to Floyd's Echoes.
I thought the use of timbres merited a Prog ribbon. I'm not sure about what else. It's certainly music for the patient. It takes awhile interesting things to develop. That's a sore spot I also have with Van der Graaf Generator. There were two or three times when they had a droning thing going not unlike VdGG, just missin the sax(es).
Joined: June 07 2012
Location: Wakefield
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Points: 347
Posted: May 28 2014 at 17:36
HackettFan wrote:
Matthew _Gill wrote:
Strange thoughts, Archive don't really class themselves as anything but do make the point in interviews that their music is progressive, lol.
It seems more dance, pop or electronic than rock to me for the most part..
Surely this is progressive, it just seems to me a tribute to Floyd's Echoes.
I thought the use of timbres merited a Prog ribbon. I'm not sure about what else. It's certainly music for the patient. It takes awhile interesting things to develop. That's a sore spot I also have with Van der Graaf Generator. There were two or three times when they had a droning thing going not unlike VdGG, just missin the sax(es).
You have to be very very patient with Archive, I think even the most ardent UK prog fans find them way too demanding, but I love how they slowly build layers, like Steve does on the end of 'Shadow of the Hierophant.'
I think this is Archive's longest song, a real modern Prog classic with yet another nod to Floyd's 'Echoes' at the start.
Joined: August 27 2006
Location: The Beach
Status: Online
Points: 13504
Posted: June 17 2014 at 15:55
Someone on the site here put up a video from a live performance and I loved it, bought the cd but could only muster 3 stars overall despite that one amazing tune.
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