Album
Vermilion Sands

You All Look the Same to MeArchive

released: 2002-03-12
on label: EastWest
artist: Archive
with some: Trip Hop
listen at: Spotify YouTube Music

“Archive don’t do three-minute blasts of guitar pop - thankfully they don’t veer into prog-rock esque self-indulgent territory either. So what do they do? Well, most of the songs here build up (normally rather slowly) from an ambient opening, integrating more and more weird and wonderful instruments as the clock ticks on. And as you’d expect with tracks as long as 17 minutes, Archive are not afraid to experiment - warped beats and eerie samples sit perfectly happily alongside the standard guitarbassdrums setup on many of the tracks here, most notably the sublime Finding It So Hard.” - David Coleman, No Ripcord