Archive Material

AlbumJan 21 / 202212 songs, 37m 34s
Post-Punk Indie Rock
Noteable
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7 / 10

Silverbacks’ Archive Material makes the best of a truly bizarre, banal, and jarring time

7.5 / 10

The Dublin quintet sound determined and purposeful on their second album, pushing their precise guitar rock forward even…

A puzzling, and largely forgettable collection.

Dublin-based art-rockers Silverbacks return with their sophomore record Archive Material, the follow-up to 2020's Fad.

6.5 / 10

Released a year and a half after the Irish five-piece art rockers’ debut Fad, Archive Material sees Silverbacks continuing their effort to defy categorization by creating sonic pastiches from fragments of widely varying genres into a jovial racket with wild shifts in dynamics and tempo.

7 / 10

The ‘p’ word may be starting to get tiresome with every gruesome mention in our day-to-day lives. But with ‘Archive Material’,

O’Kelly brothers’ 1980s influences shine through without getting too reverential