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Archive: Volume One

by A.R.C. Soundtracks

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    Packaging designed by K. Craig and David Armes
    Image by K. Craig
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1.
The Road To The Camp 05:35
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"and you'd step out" 04:40
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3.
Covered Mirrors 02:38
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4.
The Path 04:29
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5.
"lee strasberg" 01:56
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6.
The Hidden Home 04:14
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"it's all dreams now" 04:29
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8.
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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11.
Sunset, San Agustin 02:33
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about

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. Two/thirds of the A.R.C. Soundtracks project are founding members of Manchester-based band Last Harbour.

PRESS:

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."
DECODER: Premiere of In Circular Ruins film.
ELECTRONIC BEATS: The Road To The Camp featured in Videodrome.

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released February 10, 2014

Recorded and mixed by David Armes, Marc Rahr and K. Craig
Mastered by Peter Philipson

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Outsider noise experiments. Digital-analogue collage film + image. CDs in handmade letterpress packaging.

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