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Edition of 500 shrinkwrapped in a reverse board gatefold jacket with insert and black dust sleeve.
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(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.
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Edition of 80 shrinkwrapped in a reverse board gatefold jacket with insert and black dust sleeve.
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
$25USDor more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Edition of 80 shrinkwrapped in a reverse board gatefold jacket with insert and black dust sleeve.
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
$25USDor 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
$12USDor 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.
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
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
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