Archive: Volume One

by A.R.C. Soundtracks

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    Comes in hand-printed letterpress packaging by Red Plate Press with collage cover by K. Craig. Includes three tracing paper inserts with articles and history.

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The Road To The Camp 05:35
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"And you'd step out" 04:40
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Covered Mirrors 02:38
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The Path 04:29
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"Lee Strasberg" 01:56
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The Hidden Home 04:14
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"It's all dreams now" 04:29
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In Circular Ruins 05:23
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"We don't always wake" 02:59
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Dustcloud 05:38
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Sunset, San Augustin 02:33
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about

Debut album released via LCR Records.

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A.R.C. Soundtracks are based in the north of England. Marrying bleak organ and guitar drones to distant tribal percussion and disembodied spoken-word vocals, they make for an unsettling listen. Their debut album 'Archive: Volume One' moves from sparse, fragmentary pieces ("And you’d step out", "Lee Strasberg’’) to dense, slow-shifting blankets of sound (The Road To The Camp, The Hidden Home). Its haunted, blown-out sonics sometimes recalls artists like Throbbing Gristle, Ben Frost and The Haxan Cloak.

ROCK-A-ROLLA: "Eroded, rurally blemished drone. It's difficult to tell if the music is reassembling or falling apart further, and that's a beautiful thing."
ECHOES & DUST: "A record with a deep, resonant atmosphere, reminiscent of the likes of Demdike Stare, Svarte Greiner and even Swans at points. Archive: Volume One should prove to be one of the highlights of 2014."
THE SKINNY: "As dark and troubling as it is beautiful and elegiac."
EARS FOR EYES: "The sonic equivalent of a Cormac McCarthy character wandering a blasted deadscape of roasted tree stumps and ash-filled lakes."

credits

released February 10, 2014

K. Craig: voice, piano, keys, percussion
David Armes: guitar, lap steel, organ, loops
Marc Rahr: bass, guitar, voice

Mastered by Peter Philipson

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THE WIRE: "Unearthly and unknowable"
ECHOES & DUST: “A deep, resonant atmosphere, reminiscent of Demdike Stare, Svarte Greiner and Swans"
DOA: “Imagine Bark Psychosis remixed by John Carpenter" ... more

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