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Location: London, United Kingdom

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Dart For My Sweetheart Video

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The best groups, one imagines - from The Beatles in Help to The Magic Band
making Trout Mask Replica - live and create together in romantic squalor. The
Archies are no exception, the three piece sharing a decadent south London at
where anything goes.

We came back from tour and we had nothing to do, so started writing this
album and we did it all in guitarist Dorians bedroom and we went a bit nuts, says
singer/guitarist Sam Windett. Wed get up, have a coffee and stumble straight
into the room and start playing. We played for days and days and that turned into
weeks and weeks.

Honing the songs down was an arduous process, but when it was done they
ew to Nashville, Tennessee to record them with producer Jacquire King (Tom
Waits, Kings Of Leon). And the result is a compact marvel of high-strung energy
and demented grooves that theyve called Derdang Derdang.

Theres an intensity and urgency to Sams singing that might recall Pere Ubu
for some, an angularity to the boys rifng which has echoes of The Monks in its
unhinged thrust and bluesy roots. Theyd steeped themselves in soul music and
Scandinavian psych, Faust, Son House and The Gun Club, but the long gestation
and careful editing means that, chiey, The ABO on Derdang Derdang sound like
themselves.

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Natt said:
I cannot stop listening to "Shark's Tooth"! Ya'll are wonderful! Mar 06
TheEar said:
Solid Music Sep 28
said:
thank you for being awesome. :) Jun 15