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Rating: I have always wondered why most of our local music magazines do not pay attention to Archive. Their previous album, «You All Look the Same To Me», was indeed in many situations a plagiarism of Pink Floyd, but it was decidedly well-made, produced, and emotional (especially the epic "AGAIN"). I am therefore surprised to find the new album in the store, with a great cover and a provocative "NOISE" as the title. A turn towards noisier sound territories?
After paying a good deal of money for it, I rush home and impatiently start listening to it. "Noise" starts, a track with an upbeat rhythm but annoyingly long and repetitive. Yes, the guitars sound good, there's a nice vintage organ, the usual space effects and bla bla bla, but there's not the slightest trace of Noise. I look at the tracklist and find that track no. 2 on the album is called "Fuck You", wow here there will be an outburst of anger with distorted guitars! Not at all. I find myself listening to a very trivial nursery rhyme composed of insults and declarations of hate in rhyme addressed towards a real or fictional enemy. To liven up the nursery rhyme, the ingenious author thought to alternate it with a measured riff of guitar that seems to be taken directly from Marilyn Manson's version of "Sweet Dreams."
The violins placed at the end certainly do not help to save the day. At this point, I become quite impatient, and I realize that the album is a succession of sappy, trivial, repetitive, and rather self-celebratory songs. There is not a single song worth saving. It is not enough to insert an electronic base here and there, some string instruments, or some Floyd-like effects when there are no songs. The Cooper Temple Clause are much better in the same genre. It is a pity that the Italian media do not talk about Archive (apart from GQ, of course, which will recommend it to you). I would have saved 17 euros…
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Noise (06:43)
Stay in your coma, in your own frustration
Lip sinking haircut, blow me away
Cos I'd rather be in this noise
Suffocate in this noise colder
It means so much to me
Nostalgia makes your living so easy
Ludites make it easy for me
Cos I'd rather be in this noise
Suffocate in this noise colder
It means so much to me
To me (Repeat x 6)
Cos I'd rather be in this noise (Repeat x 3)
Rather be in this noise (Repeat x 4)
Repetition baby
Machine is taking over
Dance with me baby, the future is here
Scientific baby, waltz hand in hand
Scientific baby, technological man
Would you rather be in this noise
celebrate in this noise colder
It means so much to me
Would you rather be in this noise
celebrate in this noise colder
It means so much to me
Repetition baby there's no escape from me here
Run run baby
Try and run from me here
Reconciliation welcome back here
Fun fun fun fun fun, get your fun from us here
Cos I'd rather be in this noise
celebrate in this noise colder
It means so much to me (Repeat x 5)
02 Fuck U (05:14)
There’s a look on your face I would like to knock out
See the sin in your grin and the shape of your mouth
All I want is to see you in terrible pain
Though we won’t ever meet I remember your name
Can’t believe you were once just like anyone else
Then you grew and became like the devil himself
Pray to God I think of a nice thing to say
But I don’t think I can so fuck you anyway
You are scum, you are scum and I hope that you know
That the cracks in your smile are beginning to show
Now the world needs to see that it’s time you should go
There’s no light in your eyes and your brain is too slow
Can’t believe you were once just like anyone else
Then you grew and became like the devil himself
Pray to God I can think of a nice thing to say
But I don’t think I can, so fuck you anyway
Bet you sleep like a child with your thumb in your mouth
I could creep up beside put a gun in your mouth
Makes me sick when I hear all the shit that you say
So much crap coming out it must take you all day
There’s a space kept in hell with your name on the seat
With a spike in the chair just to make it complete
When you look at yourself do you see what I see
If you do why the fuck are you looking at me
Why the fuck why the fuck are you looking at me
(Repeat x 4)
There’s a time for us all and I think yours has been
Can you please hurry up ‘cos I find you obscene
We can’t wait for the day that you’re never around
When that face isn’t here and you rot underground
Can’t believe you were once just like anyone else
Then you grew and became like the devil himself
Pray to god I can think of a nice thing to say
But I don’t think I can so fuck you anyway
So fuck you anyway (Repeat x 11)
04 Sleep (06:50)
The enemy is after me again
Afraid of the sea and what's down there
I need to sleep
It's been a whole week
Cos tears keep falling into my pool
Bright lights driving right into me cold
I need to sleep
It's been a whole week
Cos tears keep falling into my pool
Bright lights driving right into me cold
My bones keep breaking
Tearing me away from the quiet
The silence of my soul, of my soul from the quiet
Night time, gruelling, just time to waste
Heights they kill me, leave scarring on my face
Cos� I never, ever, ever fall into sleep?
And I've never ever ever felt so weak
Cos� tears keep falling into my pool
Bright lights driving right into me cold
My bones keep breaking
Tearing me away from the quiet
The silence of my soul, of my soul from the quiet
I wanna fall down (Repeat x 5)
07 Conscience (04:17)
God rid us
Of our, our conscience
So we can float away
God rid us
Of our, our conscience
So we can float away
God rid us
Of our, our conscience
So we can float away
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