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ARTIST..: Arch Woodmann
ALBUM...: Arch Woodmann
GENRE...: Indie
STYLE...: Indie Pop, Indie Rock
YEAR....: 2013
LABEL...: Platinum
COUNTRY.: France
PLACE...: Paris, Brest, Saint-l
VOCALS..: English
ENCODER.: LAME 3.100 -V0
BITRATE.: 266 kbps avg
QUALITY.: 44.1kHz / Joint Stereo
SOURCE..: CD
TRACKS..: 13
SIZE....: 80.32 MB
URL..: https://musicbrainz.org/release/8dbb6e02-11b4-4958-957a-68f93ce60ed2
https://www.novorama.com/chroniques/2425-arch-woodmann-arch-woodmann
https://web.archive.org/web/20130521020618/http://archwoodmann.com
https://web.archive.org/web/20131123150922/http://archwoodmann.com
https://www.concertarchives.org/bands/arch-woodmann
https://www.w-fenec.org/rock/arch-woodmann.html
https://www.indierockmag.com/article21810.html
- TRACKLIST
1 Good God 3:17
2 I Should Be Fine 3:44
3 Stupid'o'Clock 3:36
4 Turn Twenty Again 2:42
5 Fangs 3:04
6 That Summer 2:41
7 Sea Precious Sea 4:32
8 Parking Lot 3:47
9 Dark Dark Clouds 2:22
10 What Did You See 3:06
11 Employment 4:05
12 Coupe 1:20
13 Gorge 3:36
Total Playtime: 41:52
NOTICE: The backcover lists only 12 tracks (track #12 "Coupe Gorge")
But in actual fact there are 13 tracks on the disc. (see accurip-log)
The bandcamp sites from the artist and label also list 13 tracks: #12 "Coupe" and #13 "Gorge"
https://archwoodmannpromo.bandcamp.com/album/arch-woodmann
https://platinumrecords.bandcamp.com/album/arch-woodmann
As can be read in the review further below:
Perfectly arranged like any great work that respects itself, the album closes
in an admirable way with the bipolar suite "Coupe" / "Gorge" that any other
group would have placed at the beginning of the disc, with its almost
Lynchian soaring musical intro cut off sharply by the hit and nervous
"Gorge", a title in fact isolated and sounding effectively different from the
rest of the album.
Streaming sources only include this disc's 3:36 minute track #13 and title it
as track #12 "Coupe George", but in fact are missing the 01:24 minute intro ("Coupe")
The 13 track physical version containing the 'intro' is sold as a
'Limited Deluxe Edition' on the artist's bandcamp page.
Edition Deluxe et Limit e
comprenant LP, CD, 45T et MP3
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Young, French and acoustic, Arch Woodmann is the solo project of a former
post-punk/post-rocker who chose to leave - for a while - electricity behind
him. After having fallen in love with folk music, he started to focuse on his
own production, which mixes the melancholy of Sun Kill Monn to the
experimental jazz touch of Do Make Say Think, with a few Broken Social
Scene-like poppy choruses.
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Antoine Pasqualini, le chanteur multi-instrumentiste fondateur d'Arch
Woodmann, et d sormais entour d'un vrai groupe, est initialement batteur et
a s'entend. Si l'on devait pr lever la s ve des morceaux qui constituent le
troisi me album flamboyant de ces Bordelais d'adoption, nul doute que
celle-ci se trouverait dans la section rythmique du groupe, tout - fait
impeccable, quelque part entre le groove post-rock chirurgical et hypnotique
de John McEntire - un autre batteur multi-instrumentiste (Tortoise, The Sea
and Cake) - et la white soul nergique et maligne des Talking Heads. Nous
parlons ici de s ve car, fort heureusement, Arch Woodmann l'album ne se
r sume pas - une collection de chansons simplement efficaces (a contrario des
pompiers peu supportables de Foals) m me si God God , Stupid'o'Clock ,
Parking Lot ou What Do You See sont des tubes en puissance, capables
de rapidement faire monter au plafond les auditeurs les plus apathiques.
Le troisi me album de la bande de Pasqualini est avant tout un tr s grand
disque de pop moderne au sens large, et d'une richesse qui ne se d ment pas
au fil des coutes. Moderne et paradoxalement assez - part dans la sc ne pop
fran aise actuelle (elle-m me finalement plut"t r trograde car en pleine
fixette 80's), il puise dans les structures post-rock les plus labor es -
mais pr sent es ici dans leurs plus beaux adages, entre choeurs smoothy (les
irr sistibles sha sha sha du sublime That Summer ), cuivres envo-tants
( That Summer , encore), synth s cheap piqu s - The Sophtware Slump de
Grandaddy ( Sea Precious Sea ) et electronica inspir e ( Parking Lot ).
Parfaitement agenc comme toute grande oeuvre qui se respecte, l'album se
cl"t d'une mani re admirable avec la suite bipolaire Coupe / Gorge
que n'importe quel autre groupe aurait plac en ouverture de disque, avec son
intro musicale planante quasi-lynchienne coup e net par le tubesque et
nerveux Gorge , titre de fait isol et sonnant effectivement diff remment
du reste de l'album. Ce morceau semble nous indiquer le d but d'un nouveau
cycle pour Arch Woodmann... qu'on ne conna tra qu'en patientant jusqu'- leur
prochaine livraison discographique et qui nous pousse - sans cesse r -appuyer
sur le bouton play , jamais tout - fait rassasi s de ce disque ample et
prot iforme.
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Antoine Pasqualini, the founding multi-instrumentalist singer of Arch
Woodmann, now surrounded by a real band, is originally a drummer, and it
shows. If one were to extract the lifeblood from the tracks that make up the
flamboyant third album from these adopted Bordeaux natives, there's no doubt
it would be found in the band's rhythm section, utterly impeccable, somewhere
between the surgical and hypnotic post-rock groove of John McEntire-another
multi-instrumentalist drummer (Tortoise, The Sea and Cake)-and the energetic
and malignant white soul of Talking Heads. We're talking lifeblood here
because, fortunately, the album "Arch Woodmann" isn't just a collection of
merely effective songs (unlike the unbearable fireworks of Foals), even if
"God God," "Stupid'o'Clock," "Parking Lot," and "What Do You See" are
potential hits, capable of quickly driving even the most apathetic listeners
to the rooftops.
The third LP from Pasqualini's band is, above all, a truly great modern pop
record in the broadest sense, and its richness continues unabated with each
listen. Modern and paradoxically quite unique in the current French pop scene
(itself ultimately rather retrograde, in its 80s obsession), it draws on the
most elaborate post-rock structures - but presented here in their finest
idiosyncrasies, between smooth choirs (the irresistible "sha sha sha" of the
sublime "That Summer"), captivating brass ("That Summer," again), cheap
synths borrowed from Grandaddy's "The Software Slump" ("Sea Precious Sea"),
and inspired electronica ("Parking Lot"). Perfectly arranged like any great
work that respects itself, the album closes in an admirable way with the
bipolar suite "Coupe" / "Gorge" that any other group would have placed at the
beginning of the disc, with its almost Lynchian soaring musical intro cut off
sharply by the hit and nervous "Gorge", a title in fact isolated and sounding
effectively different from the rest of the album. This piece seems to
indicate the beginning of a new cycle for Arch Woodmann... which we will only
know by waiting until their next discographic delivery and which pushes us to
constantly re-press the "play" button, never quite satisfied with this ample
and protean disc.
Translated from https://www.popnews.com/2013/02/27/arch-woodmann
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Dream Pop
is a subgenre of
alternative rock and neo-psychedelia
that emphasizes atmosphere and sonic texture as much as pop
melody. Common characteristics include breathy vocals, dense productions,
and effects such as reverb, echo, tremolo, and chorus. It often
overlaps with the related genre of shoegaze, and the
two genre terms have at times been
used interchangeably.
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