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See the World on Fire

by the Ar-Kaics

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    releases May 3, 2024

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    Edition of 500 shrinkwrapped in a reverse board gatefold jacket with insert and black dust sleeve.

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Edition of 80 shrinkwrapped in a reverse board gatefold jacket with insert and black dust sleeve.

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    Includes digital pre-order of See the World on Fire. You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    shipping out on or around May 3, 2024
    Purchasable with gift card

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Edition of 80 shrinkwrapped in a reverse board gatefold jacket with insert and black dust sleeve.

    EU customers: Please order your domestic pressing from bachelorrecords.com

    Includes digital pre-order of See the World on Fire. You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    shipping out on or around May 3, 2024
    Purchasable with gift card

      $25 USD or more 

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Edition of 500 shrinkwrapped in a 6 panel Digipak.

    Includes digital pre-order of See the World on Fire. You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    shipping out on or around May 3, 2024
    Purchasable with gift card

      $12 USD or more 

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Edition of 500 shrinkwrapped in a reverse board gatefold jacket with insert and black dust sleeve. Shipped from Europe.

    Includes digital pre-order of See the World on Fire. You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    shipping out on or around May 3, 2024

      €22 EUR or more 

     

1.
Chains
2.
Fools are Gone
3.
Stone Love 04:51
My head is in the past The one I’ve been is the place I am A photograph  The world just turned her head Smiled and turned again The place I am  is getting dark again It’ll never be the same It’s never been this late today Look out from a mountain  See the world on fire Love has been forsaken  But it’s  really not a crime Don’t let it die Stone love Don’t let it die Please help I’ll take any kind Find myself remembering  When you and me would do anything  To get a laugh We’ll now I’m laughing behind the back Of a photograph  Sad old photograph  The room is getting tired again  That’s the oldest one I’ve been You can call me back When you’re tired of where your at More of England’s heartless rain Could never lift the stain of love. The tree leaves all point fingers And anyone below is to blame Production days are numbered Just one thing remains here Don’t let it die dear Stone love Don’t it it die Please help I’ll take any kind Come on baby Any kind
4.
Land of the Blind
5.
Cornerstone 03:25
Boll weevil swarm arrives so high Makes today look like tonight Got a warm place for the winter time Drinking flesh of fortunate sons With the royal bloodline wine It’s nice Now’s the time if you’re gonna switch sides Make today look like tonight In the last good time to need a good friend A long time wrong is to be a long way gone It could be a cornerstone this time Life was just right before it was done The hour’s late but it ain’t gone It could be a cornerstone 
6.
Dawning 02:05
Boll weevil swarm arrives so high Makes today look like tonight Got a warm place for the winter time Drinking flesh of fortunate sons With the royal bloodline wine It’s nice Now’s the time if you’re gonna switch sides Make today look like tonight In the last good time to need a good friend A long time wrong is to be a long way gone It could be a cornerstone this time Life was just right before it was done The hour’s late but it ain’t gone It could be a cornerstone  Dawning Time hangs down  A rusty wire Rearranged me Very likely to take An awful time To relate babe But the morning will rise up free And there’ll be a new light to see Just like water over me And the dawning ever after is free I wish to be gone Far away Enough to find out Some kind of time That would be The very last kind Out of your mouth And the morning will rise up free And there’ll be a new light to see Like the water over me The dawning is free Come on and be free
7.
Outsider
8.
Never Ending

about

The Ar-Kaics are back with See the World on Fire, their first new album in six years. It’s also the first release from this newly-minted partnership between Feel It Records and the bands’ own imprint, Dig! Records; with Bachelor Records delivering a European edition. Expect eight new tunes of dark, moody, rollicking garage psych not altogether dissimilar from their previous output (across two LPs and a mess of singles). What you get here is the next chapter. All written and recorded in singer-guitarist Johnny’s bedroom / garage (pictured on the album cover), it’s a concept album based on the concept of making an album—on their own, from the brink.
But don’t just take our word for it…

“The Ar-Kaics out of Virginia are pretty groovy. They got THAT sound, man.”
- Marc Maron

“What could possibly have possessed these seasoned vets peppered throughout the Commonwealth (a region philosophically averse to light pollution) to paint it all even blacker? Where have all the good times gone, and how? When that '60s clang-n-fuzz gets too much humidity on it, that swamp-heavy "let's go get stoned" midnight choir to the black vacuum of electric hum at the hour only the birds and paw-paws are listening and the true believers among us can unbottle some secrets to the stars above... you get this album. So many third-wave garage juggernauts always kept the shtick secured in their pocket protectors. Even Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs’ emotional investment translated directly to their market parameters. No risks, no rewards, no 4th walls and no 5th columns. Great shit, but who's feeling? This album calls the bluff on the whole genre—a Hail Mary by dudes who've used and been used by the entanglement. There was always a suspension of disbelief to the cathartic hokiness, and this is the ultimate trump card. They still believe in music, and you can too. In the intersections of love and trust and money and hope, we're all crosstown traffic, and if there aren't marks on your back, pat it. You'll hear echoes of Lou and Neil and Keith, but there's no indication what part of the woods they're coming from. It's music from where they went on occasion, mapless. Music from the other side. A land free of time.”
- Brandon Gaffney

“Love over gold.”
- Don Van Vliet

credits

releases May 3, 2024

The Ar-Kaics are Johnny, Jake, Kevin & Tim
Recorded at the Dojo in Great Falls, Virginia
Engineered and mixed by Nick Anderson
Mastered by TJ Lipple
Photography by Richard Howard
Illustrations by Johnny Ward
Layout & design by Jake Cregger and Evan Napala
Additional vocals on "Dawning" by Brandon Evans

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