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in post-modern bricolage. This makes it
sound a bit too polite and wallpapery,
though, which it is most definitely not.
ARCHIVE
Restriction
Dangervisit
Wildly diverse, sharply cinematic and
post everything from rock to trip hop
Despite the heterogeneous stylings of
this album, which includes rock skiffle
and industria as well as crepuscular neosoul torch songs, Archive’s roots lie in
electronic music. Still relatively unknown
in the UK but very popular in continental
Europe, the core duo of this outfit, Danny
Griffiths and Darius Keeler, actually
started out in the obscure days of
‘ardkore. Back then, as Genaside II, they
produced the cult proto-jungle 12-inch
‘Narra Mine’, which nestled in many rave
DJs’ boxes during the early 90s. A few
years on, in 1996, they secured Archive
a deal with Island Records and made
‘Londinium’, a dark trip hop album that
became something of a leftfield classic.
‘Restriction’ is Archive’s 10th longplayer and is an equally stro