-=- SHGZ -=- * Shoegaze * Indie * Post-Rock * Grunge * Dream Pop * Psych-Rock * Ethereal * 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 * 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. * 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. * 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 -=- SHGZ -=- -=-=-==-=-=- 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. ---==--==---