{"id":1338,"date":"2023-11-07T14:06:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T19:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acadianembassy.com\/music\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2024-07-04T14:38:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T18:38:35","slug":"sluice-releases-sophomore-album-archiviste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acadianembassy.com\/music\/2023\/11\/07\/sluice-releases-sophomore-album-archiviste\/","title":{"rendered":"SLUICE RELEASES SOPHOMORE ALBUM, ARCHIVISTE"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Acadian powerpop quartet\u00a0SLUICE\u00a0<\/strong>presents a history lesson, a love letter to home, and a fist-pumping banger with their sophomore album,\u00a0Archiviste<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. Listen and buy\u00a0HERE<\/strong><\/a>.

A historical epic of ten high-gloss tracks crafted alongside renowned collaborators – recording engineer\u00a0Thomas D\u2019Arcy<\/strong>\u00a0(The Sheepdogs<\/strong>,\u00a0July Talk<\/strong>,\u00a0NOBRO<\/strong>), mix engineer\u00a0Jay Dufour<\/strong>\u00a0(Ria Mae<\/strong>,\u00a0Tokyo Police Club<\/strong>,\u00a0Avril Lavigne<\/strong>), and producer\u00a0AA Wallace<\/strong>\u00a0(Sleepless Nights<\/strong>,\u00a0Cheval<\/strong>) –\u00a0Archiviste<\/em>\u00a0is the most fun you could possibly have learning about niche Nova Scotian Acadian history while soaking in your 1990s nostalgia\u2014Gin Blossoms<\/strong>\u00a0on speed (but make it nerdy).

Released during Nova Scotia Music Week in Yarmouth, NS and arriving ahead of a showcase at Coup de Coeur Francophone in Montreal, QC this Saturday, November 11, the opus encompasses a wide range of sonic influences for the group, lead by Trevor Murphy; from\u00a0Weezer<\/strong>\u00a0to\u00a0Mot\u00f6rhead<\/strong>, from\u00a0The Ramones<\/strong>\u00a0to\u00a0The Lemonheads<\/strong>, from\u00a0Thin Lizzy<\/strong>\u00a0to\u00a0Jimmy Eat World\u00a0<\/strong>– a combination which offers a unique spin on “Acadian music<\/em>.”

With the support of the\u00a0Canada Council for the Arts<\/strong>, Murphy\u2014who, when speaking English, leads the indie-folk band\u00a0Quiet Parade<\/strong>\u2014made trips to his home county of Yarmouth to the Argyle Township Court House and Archives in Tusket, where he dug through hundreds of years of newspapers, manuscripts, property records, photos, and even his own elementary school projects. He took that information into a series of self-imposed writing residencies in the region, nudging facts next to feelings, then setting those to melodies. Nearly all 10 songs on the album were created this way.

“I wanted to take stock of\u00a0Par-en-Bas<\/strong>, the place and the villages where we grew up. There\u2019s this whole subset of Acadian culture that\u2019s been there for 200 years minimum, sometimes way longer\u2014pre-deportation\u2014that we never even knew when we were growing up there,”\u00a0says Murphy. “I found that so disheartening, that no one took the time to tell us what was special about that place. So of course you wanna leave. And I had to find my own way back to it.”

Though it sounds like the cult favourite record of a band that would have co-headlined a college tour with Nada Surf and Harvey Danger in the mid-90s, Archiviste presents the roots of the Acadian heritage Murphy held hints of but had to go looking for. The high-energy call-and-responder\u00a0“La sorci\u00e8re de la Pointe-du-Sault”<\/strong>\u00a0is about a witch in the band\u2019s namesake village, Sluice Point.\u00a0“Madeleine<\/a>“<\/strong>\u00a0tells the incredibly true story of a woman who escaped multiple deportation attempts in the 1750s, living many years alone in the woods of Pubnico before ending up married in France until she died in her 80s. The mid-tempo\u00a0“L’ann\u00e9e des trois huits”<\/strong>\u00a0(the year of three eights, or 1888) details \u2013 according to the accounts in the French-language newspaper\u00a0L\u2019\u00c9vangeline<\/em>\u00a0– the worst year on record for farming and fishing in Wedgeport. The synth-laden pop-punk banger\u00a0“Danse le car\u00eame”<\/strong>\u00a0centers on a restaurant that had a\u00a0Footloose<\/em>-style no-dancing rule during Lent.\u00a0“American Lights<\/strong>,“<\/strong>\u00a0the record\u2019s only all-English song, tells the always-relatable story of a small-town writer who dreamed of making it big. And its companion, the jangly, layered\u00a0“Paradis sur la c\u00f4te<\/strong>,“<\/strong>\u00a0is an ode to the founding of Tusket, the hub village of the area, which is on the way to almost everywhere else you want to go.

Murphy\u2019s own experience in this unique collection of villages is woven in amongst the historical references. On songs such as\u00a0“Le\u00a0ch’monne \u00e0 Cyril (Black Pond Road)<\/strong>,“<\/strong>\u00a0about a high-school era party and\u00a0“Carino<\/strong>,“<\/strong>\u00a0in part a track about the men slightly older than him he\u2019d see “waiting at the wharf to go fishing”\u00a0for the rest of their lives, hyper-regional geography anchors the memories and provides the framework for high-octane guitar rippers that compress a curious blend of influences \u2013 what if Weezer covered Mot\u00f6rhead? On the lead single\u00a0“<\/strong>Agis\u00a0comme du monde<\/strong><\/a>,“<\/strong>\u00a0careful emphasis is placed on constructing the shouted call-and-response verse lyrics using words and sayings familiar to the distinct dialect of Par-en-Bas (ackmode, malonne, garoche, feutchaques<\/em>) \u2013 itself a novel way of preserving the culture of one the oldest Acadian region in the world.

The closing track,\u00a0“Br\u00e9bis dans la brume”<\/strong>\u00a0(sheep in the fog<\/em>), is a somber piano-driven ballad, nudged forward by swirling cymbals and a distant kick drum, about how the waning popularity of the Catholic church has impacted these small communities, and continues to. Changing landscapes, youth exodus, and population shifts – “rural malaise,”\u00a0as Murphy puts it.

Though it ends on a sobering note,\u00a0Archiviste<\/em>\u00a0is at its heart a document of a resilient, proud, and exceptional part of the world whose history is largely unknown. It took a rock band to find the grace notes.

“I wanted to do this project for myself and for people to have a road map,”\u00a0says Murphy. “These are some really fascinating stories about these places that you may have never heard before.”

Archiviste<\/em>\u00a0is available now via\u00a0Acadian Embassy<\/strong>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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