Name: In This Time
Brand: The Ar-Kaics

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

LP-WCK-003X

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Colour

Colour details

Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Limited Beach Glass Color Vinyl

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2018-10-26

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

823134990319

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

The Ar-Kaics

Genre US

Garage

Label US

Wick Records

Features current and ex-members of Chain and The Gang, Pygmy Lush, and The Shirks. 

Moody lo-fi garage rock. Coasting into town on fumes, late and not speaking to each other because nobody would stop to ask for directions,The Ar-Kaics take their cues from the first wave of ‘60s punk — American teenagers taking cues from the British Invasion, in turn taking cues from pilfers of the hinterland originators — with the added vantage of several subsequent decades worth of wayward balladeers, no names and psychedelic rock hangovers. The Ar-Kaics have been delivering their off-brand, spot-on garage rock originals out of Richmond, VA, via a flood of small press singles and a self titled debut album - all of which have since become highly desirable in the collectors market - and several successful DIY tours across the lower 48, with shows in Canada and Europe to boot. Since, they've drifted around some, gotten and lost jobs, opened a record store and label, and started families. In the summer of 2015 the group hooked up with Wayne Gordon and Mikey Post, of Wick Records to record a couple tracks at the Daptone Records' House of Soul - resulting in 2016's critically acclaimed - Just My Life / It's Her Eyes 45.

After the success of their debut single on Wick, plans were hashed to record their sophomore full-length, which took place over three days in the Spring of 2017, at Adrian Olsen's Montrose Studio in Richmond, VA. Produced by Wayne Gordon (Black Lips, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion), and Mikey Post (Reigning Sound, The Jay Vons) the fruits of the heady three day retreat produced the Long Player, In This Time...a low-brow journey through the Teen-Beat sounds of the 1960's...and beyond! From the opening, crude thud of Don't Go With Him, the Velvet Underground tinged swagger of She's Obsessed with Herself, the breezy, late-period psych of Long Way Down, to the unpretentious, sap-free balladry of It's Her Eyes - The Ar-Kaics flex their deft understanding of the subtle intricacies that defines bonafide Garage Rock. In spite, the band remains, taking its time with In This Time, void of professionalism or self-preservation, just an unquenchable thirst to lap it up and pass it around — the good stuff that is — before it’s all gone.

In This Time

Music US