Luke's Marvellous Music World (2)

Hey Guys, it’s me again, Luke. So I promised I’d blog about a different band each week and here we go, my second band is waiting for y’all.

So this time I picked a band that is maybe a little more popular than the first I picked (see my first blog about Bombay Bicycle Club) and without any further explanations, here they are, ARCHIVE.

Again, they come from Britain and they do electronic, trip - hop, avant garde and some rock. They had success throughout Europe, but ironically not in Britain. They started around 1994 and over they years they released eight studio albums.

In May 2009 they released, in my opinion, their best album called “The Controlling Crowds”. With this album they climbed the charts in France, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Greece. The single “Bullets” that came with the album - also one of my favorites - was also their most successful single and hit the charts in Greece, Poland, Switzerland, France and Germany like a freight train and shot to the top of the charts.

They toured trough Europe with “Controlling Crowds”, but unfortunately I never got the chance to see them live and in action. That’s actually one of my dreams, to see them on a show.

Now I can’t really talk about all their albums, but I’ll tell you a little bit ‘bout “Controlling Crowds”, which is the best one anyways. So the album has 13 songs on it and the Genre of tracks contains everything from electronic to rock and modern music genres. It starts with a 10:09 minutes song which is named like the album “Controlling Crowds”.

The set up of the album is perfect and it switches from calm to exciting, which makes it just a pleasure to listen to. So if your either into electronic or hip/hop or rock or you just like all of it, this album has it all, so don’t forget and tune into it sometime. My favorite songs in “Controlling Crowds” are the hit single “Bullets” as well as “kings of Speed” and my absolute favorite “Razed to the Ground”.

So hope you guys learned some more and I hope you’ll listen to a few songs and thanks for reading my blog. Next week there’ll be a new band so I’ll see you guys around.

Peace out, Luke

PS: heres the link for the webpage: http://www.archiveofficial.com/

Luke's Marvellous Music World

So today there will be the first post of one of our guest bloggers :) so without further ado here it is:

Hey Blogging - World out there, I’m Luke, one of the guestbloggers here and I’ll be blogging ‘bout music, movies and books and stuff. So I am a huge music fan, especially of bands that aren’t as famous as they should be. So I thought I’ll talk about a different band each week so those bands get some more attention, right?

Okay then I’ll start and I hope you guys like it and look this band up some time.

My first band is called “BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB”. Those four guys do Alternative Rock and it’s just a pleasure to listen to them. Even if you don’t like Rock at all! So they started in London, England when they were like 15 years old and they got famous when they won a competition in a show called “Road to V” in 2006 and after having released a few EP’s they recorded their first album in July 2009, with the name “I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose”. I mean they had some succes, but not that kind of succes they should have. So did they just give up? NO. After they left school they made music their profession and released the second album “Flaws” in July 2010. Also the song “How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep” was added as a bonus track on the “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” soundtrack.

And right now they are working on their third studio album.

My favourite album is “I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose”. It has twelve songs on it and the change between fast and calm songs give this album a wonderful atmosphere. So if your just laying on the couch or doing some work or working out, listen to this CD guys.

I hope you learned a few things while reading this blog and maybe you’ll tune in on a few songs. So that’s it from my side, talk to you guys soon.

Over and out, Luke

PS: They also have a webpage, bombaybicycleclubmusic.com, so have a look alright?