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Archive are a London-based Trip-hop group.
History
Archive were formed by Darius Keeler and Danny Griffiths in 1994 from the ashes of UK House act Genocide 2. Together with female singer Roya Arab and young rapper Rosko John, the band released their first album "Londinium" on Island Records in 1996, a mix of dark Trip-Hop (in the same vein as Massive Attack), rap and alternative rock. The album received moderate critical acclaim, but due to internal dispute the band split up later that year.
However, in 1997 Darius and Danny reformed Archive with another female singer (Suzanne Wooder) and in 1999 released their second album "Take My Head", a mix of pop and symphonic trip-hop, and far more melodic than its predecessor.
Since then the band has released three albums with Craig Walker, formerly of Power of Dreams, as singer, to growing popularity and critical acclaim, including a large following in France and Poland. These albums have seen Archive gradually turn away from their roots in Electronica and Trip-Hop and towards more psychdelic and progressive rock in the style of bands such as Pink Floyd, Mogwai and The Secret Machines. The band also composed the soundtrack to the French film Michel Vaillant, released in November 2003.
Archive announced at short notice that Walker would not be joining the band's tour in November 2004 "due to unforeseen circumstances". Another statement from Darius Keeler hinted at personal problems keeping Walker from touring *. In an interview with TV station arte in late 2005 *, Keeler and Griffiths confirmed that Walker is in fact no longer in Archive but working on a solo album.
On May 2006, Archive released "Lights", from which the first single was "System".
Members
- Danny Griffiths
- Darius Keeler
- Dave Penny (vocals)
- Pollard Berrier (vocals)
- Maria Q (vocals)
Discography
- Londinium (1996)
- Take My Head (1999)
- You All Look The Same To Me (2002)
- Michel Vaillant (Soundtrack - Michel Vaillant on ImDb) (2003)
- Noise (2004)
- Unplugged (2005)
- Lights (2006)
External links
Trip hop groups | Electronic music groups | English musical groups | Music from London
"Archive (band)"