Controlling Crowds Part IV (2024 Remastered Deluxe Edition) Archive

• 1 Pills (2024 Remaster) 04:12
• 2 Lines (2024 Remaster) 06:04
• 3 The Empty Bottle (2024 Remaster) 07:03
• 4 Remove (2024 Remaster) 04:05
• 5 Come on Get High (2024 Remaster) 04:40
• 6 Thought Conditioning (2024 Remaster) 03:39
• 7 The Feeling of Losing Everything (2024 Remaster) 04:47
• 8 Blood In Numbers (2024 Remaster) 03:05
• 9 To the End (2024 Remaster) 03:55
• 10 Pictures (2024 Remaster) 03:54
• 11 Lunar Bender (2024 Remaster) 03:24
• 12 Never Felt This Sad (2024 Remaster) 04:35
• 13 All The Pretty Lights (2024 Remaster) 03:04
• 14 A Dying Man (2024 Remaster) 03:48
• Total Runtime 01:00:15

Info zu Controlling Crowds Part IV (2024 Remastered Deluxe Edition)

Controlling Crowds IV by Archive is a captivating album released by Pias Recordings Catalogue. This limited edition vinyl record is a must-have for any music enthusiast looking to expand their collection with a unique and powerful listening experience. With Controlling Crowds IV, Archive delivers a mesmerizing blend of electronic, rock, and trip-hop sounds that create an atmospheric and immersive journey for the listener. The album showcases the band's signature style of haunting vocals, intricate instrumentation, and thought-provoking lyrics that will leave you spellbound from start to finish.

Although this album is presented as the fourth instalment of Controlling Crowds, it is neither the conclusion nor the epilogue to the absolutely masterful work released in the spring. Rather, it's a collection of songs written before or during the sessions for episodes I to III, but which didn't find their place there. It's also guitarist Dave Pen's songs, which were submitted late for the first episodes because he was too absorbed by his separation to finish them.

After this necessary clarification, we focus on this new collection of dark, down tempo songs, where Archive and his guests make us hover in dark clouds. The first three chapters had a political and social dimension, this one is more intimate. Recorded with fewer resources, in less time and with personal pain, these songs lock you in a narrow room with the malaise of their protagonists. Released in the spring, I-III was full of cynicism and criticism; IV, released in the autumn, is an invitation to depression without return, to unconditional surrender.

A sequel to the previous album, this one is also the presentation of a band on the side and without pressure. Most of the tracks follow the typical format developed by the band: catchy rhythms over ethereal layers, loops that open onto each other to create the progression that gets the music and its listener off the ground.

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Trip hop group from the UK. Darius Keeler and Danny Griffiths formed Archive in 1994 together with female singer Roya Arab and young rapper Rosko John. Due to some dispute among themselves, the band broke up in 1996. Later (1999), Darius and Danny reformed Archive along with Susanne Wooder and Matheu Martin to produce their second album "Take My Head". After "Take My Head" the line up of the Band changed again including now singer Craig Walker (former front man for Power of Dreams). In 2001 they produced their third album, "You All Look The Same To Me", a more rock oriented disc than electronic or pop. Two years later, "Noise" and "Unplugged" are the follow ups to "You All Look The Same To Me", and they are keeping the same musical formation as before. The band composed also in 2003 the soundtrack to the French film Michel Vaillant.

Archive began their Europe tour in November 2004 without Walker, and without notifying ticket holders. Increasing shouts of 'Where's Craig?" from bemused fans at the concerts in Poland and France finally prompted a notice on the website that Craig absence was "due to unforeseen circumstances". Another statement from Darius Keeler hinted at personal problems keeping Walker from touring. In an interview with the TV station arte in late 2005, Keeler and Griffiths stated that Walker is in fact no longer with Archive and is working on a solo album, whereas Walker has stated that he left Archive due to personal differences with management and other band members.

In autumn of 2004, Archive announced that Dave Pen (Birdpen) would replace Walker on the Noise tour - due to the continuing personal problems between Walker and the rest of the band. During this same tour, Keeler and Griffiths met the singer Pollard Berrier at one of their shows in Vienna, Austria. The three began writing and rehearsing together, and were recording in Southside Studios (4), London, by September 2005.

Finally, in 2006, they release "Lights", their latest disc, including most of the previous line up (with Darius Keeler, Danny Griffiths, Maria Q, who was a chorist on "Take My Head", Dave Penney, singer on "Y.A.L.T.S" and "Noise" and Pollard Berrier).

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