Londinium [Import]

Archive | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 20, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Universal I.S.
• ASIN: B00000B3LX
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #203,006 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Old Artist

2. All Time

3. So Few Words

4. Headspace

5. Dark Room

6. Londinium

7. Man-Made

8. Nothing Else

9. Skyscraper

10. Parvaneh (Butterfly)

11. Beautiful World

12. Organ Song

13. Last Five

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars there should be 10 stars for this album, not 5., July 17, 2002

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Chris "the most passionate music/film fan alive." (Philly suburbs, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Londinium (Audio CD)

This album is quite simply, the best trip-hop record I have ever heard. It ties (or even surpasses) Portishead's "Dummy". The string arrangements, the introspective rapping (never annoying, just a great flow... GREAT flow), the female singing, the BEATS.... my god, the BEATS are PERFECT! It's a shame Archive didn't continue to create such beautiful masterpieces such as this. The album that followed, 1999's Take My Head, is horrible. The rap is gone, the female singer is different, and the beats and songs borderline on cheesy mainstream pop rather than dark, rainy-day downtempo. And I've heard tracks from the new album, You All Look The Same To Me, and unfortunately, once again the lineup has changed, and now a guy is singing (still no hip-hop). It's good but it's nowhere near as amazing as Londinium. The price tag may be high on this album, but trust me, it is worth every penny and then some. Darius and Danny: please PLEASE go back to your roots! The die-hard fans out there miss this perfect, beautiful, amazing, thought-provoking, and above all, INSPIRING album. To all those who have not heard it yet, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR????!!!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not Enough Stars in the Sky, May 16, 2003

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Kiyoshi E. Young (Sandy, UT United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Londinium (Audio CD)

Sorry but this review will be short. This album's cd or the minidisc copy I made of it, goes with me almost everywhere I go.
It lives up to to all the hype it gets. Beautiful female vocals ,smooth british rapping and perfectly produced beats. I couldn't ask for anything more in a record. Everyone who I have played this album for loves it (even my mother.) Yeah stop reading and Buy It Now!!! By the way It is extremely hard to find in record stores so once again Buy It Now!!!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Like they say, it's amazing, March 10, 2002

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Simon Booth (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Londinium (Audio CD)

Archive's Londinium is a very urban record, capturing the atmosphere of London city life like never before. Sparse, beautiful, chilling, sorrowful, a wonderful vision of isolation in a modern world. Especially brought to life by those wonderful analogue synth sounds.

Unforunately, the follow-up album "Take My Head" was vastly inferior, featuring only two good songs :(