Silverbacks announce new album Archive Material

Last month Silverbacks announced their signing to Full Time Hobby and shared a brand-new single, "Wear My Medals", of which Stereogum said: “Silverbacks move like one, wild-limbed organism, and they don’t really have a bad song to their name yet. Everything they do just hits, and “Wear My Medals” is no different.” It was the first new material from the band since the release of last year’s acclaimed – and Choice Music Prize-nominated – debut album Fad, and merged shifting textures from wiry guitar noodling to flute-flecked interludes via scratchy chords. Continuing to demonstrate an element of unpredictability to all that they do, latest offering “Archive Material” pairs a jerky stop-start rhythm with gang vocals and moments of French language. Vocalist and guitarist Daniel O’Kelly comments further on the song.

“The initial demo version started from a drum sample taken from the opening of Jean-Pierre Massiera’s “Bonne Annee”. When we fleshed it out as a full band and Gary gave the track his usual kick up the arse, the song went full Les Baxter exotica mode.

When writing the lyrics, I imagined a bunch of government officials in the deep underground of their building digging into archives. As the night continues, they get unusually aroused by the access they have to top secret information that the common folk never see.”