With only two albums to their name, it's a long way before Department Of Eagles should be undergoing the boxed set or reissue treatment. Archives is therefore a necessarily slight album, featuring five very brief studio sketches with five fully fleshed songs taken from sessions recorded in January 2006.
Perhaps for this very reason, however, Archives is a good deal more fascinating than the average contractual obligation rarities set. It captures a still very recent period in the group's development, when they were branching away from the home recording techniques of their debut The Cold Nose into something where warm acoustic sounds and considered arrangements took the group into very different sonic territory. Already, this sounds like the work of a completely different group - the electronic concerns of The Cold Nose have vanished.
1. Practice Room Sketch
2. Deadly Discosure
3. While We're Young
4. Grand Army Plaza
5. Practice Room Sketch
6. Brightest Minds
7. Practice Room Sketch
8. Flip
9. Practice Room Sketch (Tired Hands)
10. Golden Apple
11. Practice Room Sketch | |
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