You All Look The Same To Me (2024 Remastered Deluxe Edition) Archive

• 1 Again (2024 Remaster) 16:19
• 2 Numb (2024 Remaster) 05:46
• 3 Meon (2024 Remaster) 05:43
• 4 Goodbye (2024 Remaster) 05:38
• 5 Now & Then (2024 Remaster) 01:22
• 6 Seamless (2024 Remaster) 01:43
• 7 Finding It So Hard (2024 Remaster) 15:33
• 8 Fool (2024 Remaster) 08:28
• 9 Hate (2024 Remaster) 03:43
• 10 Need (2024 Remaster) 02:28
• 11 My Last (2024 Remaster) 05:13
• 12 Personal Army (2024 Remaster) 05:59
• Total Runtime 01:17:55

Info for You All Look The Same To Me (2024 Remastered Deluxe Edition)

Released in 2002, You All Look The Same To Me is the third studio album from British group Archive. It was a critical point in their career, seeing them leave their original trip-hop influenced sound behind and embrace something more influenced by prog and post-rock. For fans of bands like Mogwai and Secret Machines.

It is now 22 years since the British musicians' collective Archive freed themselves from the far too tight corset of trip hop with “You All Look The Same To Me”. From then on, the project led by the two creative minds Darius Keeler and Danny Griffiths was often mentioned in the same breath as other experimental bands of the time. Just like Radiohead, Sigur Rós, Mogwai or Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Archive were suddenly categorized as either progressive rock, art rock or the newly created term new art rock. The 16-minute long track 'Again' in particular left many listeners of progressive music open-mouthed, with the result that Archive - alongside Porcupine Tree - were already being treated by some journalists as the new legitimate successors to Pink Floyd. “Grand Vizier” Sal Pichireddu assessed ‘You All Look The Same To Me’ somewhat more cautiously and realistically in his review for our predecessor medium ‘Progressive Newsletter’ at the time, and he was right to do so:

One of the most important albums of the year, because it gave the ossifying scene an impulse from the outside and at the same time could win new friends for elaborate rock music.

However, “You All Look The Same To Me” with Craig Walker's characteristic melancholy voice not only made waves in prog circles; Archive even made it into the mass media with their crossover of alternative rock, trip-hop and art rock, so that the track 'Again' in particular still appears in the soundtracks of various television productions today. Two years later, “Noise” was released, an album that took a similar musical direction. Still attributable to prog or art rock, Keeler and Griffiths departed even further from trip-hop with album number four and moved closer and closer to alternative rock, which former colleague Kristian Selm described as follows in his review of the album:

The sound games have become less, technoid pounding rhythms have almost completely disappeared, the hypnotic, atmospheric parts no longer have the obvious presence. What has remained is the skillful interplay of very quiet numbers and rockier, slowly developing material. However, the rock component is more pronounced this time, with guitar and broken sounds much more in the foreground, giving the album a modern alternative rock feel.

To this day, “You All Look The Same To Me” and “Noise” are Archive's most popular long-playing records in the prog scene, which is probably primarily due to the fact that Keeler and Griffiths continued to develop their style with each new album in the following years. However, personnel changes in the collective also led to discontent in the scene: while Craig Walker's vocals on 2006's “Lights” were sorely missed by many, the renewed involvement of rapper Rosko John, who had already appeared on the '96 debut “Londinium”, caused great irritation on the concept album “Controlling Crowds”. Archive's approach was simply too progressive to be permanently categorized as progressive rock. However, this did not change the fact that “Noise” and especially “You All Look The Same To Me”, but also “Controlling Crowds”, still have a high status today, both among Archive fans and in the prog scene, despite Rosko's rap interludes.

Craig Walker, vocals
Danny Griffiths, guitar, harmonica, percussion
Darius Keeler, bass, programming
Additional musicians:
Pete Barraclough, guitar
Steve Harris, guitar
Dominic Brown, guitar
Lee Pomeroy, bass
Smiley, drums
Steve Emney, drums
Annelise Truss, viola & violin
Maria Q, vocals
Jane Wall, vocals
Steve "Keys" Watts, Hammond, Rhodes
Carl Holt, trumpet
Alan Glen, harmonica
Tom Brazelle, harmonica
Anita Hill, guest triangalist

Digitally remastered

Archive
Trip hop group from the UK. Darius Keeler and Danny Griffiths formed Archive in 1994 together with female singer Roya Arab and young rapper Rosko John. Due to some dispute among themselves, the band broke up in 1996. Later (1999), Darius and Danny reformed Archive along with Susanne Wooder and Matheu Martin to produce their second album "Take My Head". After "Take My Head" the line up of the Band changed again including now singer Craig Walker (former front man for Power of Dreams). In 2001 they produced their third album, "You All Look The Same To Me", a more rock oriented disc than electronic or pop. Two years later, "Noise" and "Unplugged" are the follow ups to "You All Look The Same To Me", and they are keeping the same musical formation as before. The band composed also in 2003 the soundtrack to the French film Michel Vaillant.

Archive began their Europe tour in November 2004 without Walker, and without notifying ticket holders. Increasing shouts of 'Where's Craig?" from bemused fans at the concerts in Poland and France finally prompted a notice on the website that Craig absence was "due to unforeseen circumstances". Another statement from Darius Keeler hinted at personal problems keeping Walker from touring. In an interview with the TV station arte in late 2005, Keeler and Griffiths stated that Walker is in fact no longer with Archive and is working on a solo album, whereas Walker has stated that he left Archive due to personal differences with management and other band members.

In autumn of 2004, Archive announced that Dave Pen (Birdpen) would replace Walker on the Noise tour - due to the continuing personal problems between Walker and the rest of the band. During this same tour, Keeler and Griffiths met the singer Pollard Berrier at one of their shows in Vienna, Austria. The three began writing and rehearsing together, and were recording in Southside Studios (4), London, by September 2005.

Finally, in 2006, they release "Lights", their latest disc, including most of the previous line up (with Darius Keeler, Danny Griffiths, Maria Q, who was a chorist on "Take My Head", Dave Penney, singer on "Y.A.L.T.S" and "Noise" and Pollard Berrier).

This album contains no booklet.