“Some Ungodly Hour” album and “Drink the Water feat. Dr. Kucho!” single
“A unique mix of ancient and modern, hip-hop and choral, ambient and urgent.” - Music Week "ArchiveX's music offers a vivid and unpredictable tour through the soul’s darkest nights and its most transcendent, glorious days. If you’re looking for songs that feel unfamiliar, unexpected and unfettered, if you want music that ushers the full force of human emotion, this is it." - Heather Havrilesky (NY Mag, NY Times) "With ArchiveX, there are praises to be sung. " - Steve Hochman (KPCC/LATimes) "Some of my favourite music of the past few years." - Simon Glickman, HITS "Dazzlingly timeless and intense music." - Fame Magazine “‘Hard Times’ is a song that rips into your soul …. A MUST watch music video guaranteed to touch your heart!” - Music Injection "ALL I KNOW IS THIS IS SOME MIND-BLOWING SHIT!" - Magnet ArchiveX has followed on the way to delivering his debut album, Some Ungodly Hour has been rich, varied and circuitous. A former Naval officer, tech reporter, literary editor, and videogame session vocalist, ArchiveX found his first musical success with original pieces licensed to MTV and others. But it was a 2012 invitation from left-field - to sing for a year with a revered gospel choir in the Bay Area - that inspired him to plunge into original music full-time. Deeply moved by the choral genre’s wisdom and power, ArchiveX began writing and recording the songs that comprise Some Ungodly Hour in 2013. There was a firm goal: not to make a gospel record – this is not religious music - but instead to make a hybrid and mash-up of genres and times that nonetheless still captured something of old-school gospel’s directness and soul. With contemporary influences ranging from Bjork to Tom Waits and Thom Yorke, this was never going to be a straightforward proposition. Harking back to choral styles from the 1940’s to 1960’s, he has created songs anchored in multi-tracked vocals, layered over simple acoustics and electronic brushstrokes. The first focus tracks illustrate the diverse soundscapes of the record: ”Hard Times” is a bluesy reworking of the ’61 Ray Charles classic, made relevant for our own troubled times; and “Drink the Water feat. Dr. Kucho!” - an irresistible gospel house remix. The two tracks have interconnected videos (click thumbnails to watch below). With these songs and the forthcoming album Some Ungodly Hour (plus a later album of remixes) ArchiveX serves notice that, though it may have taken a while to get here, his music was well worth the wait. Some Ungodly Hour is released on September 30th, 2016 through LoEx Music and distributed via Believe Digital. September 27, 2016 9:56am ET by Fifth Element PR |
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