![]() World Party’s last studio album was Dumbing Up in 2000. Each song in the set has its own page with photos and recording details The set is packaged in what Wallinger calls the ‘Any Year Diary’ – literally a ring-bound diary with photos, useful dates (“Neil Armstrong becomes the first man on the moon”) and little pockets for the five CDs. Don’t call it a box set – Arkeology: the 5CD ‘Any Year Diary’ The only semi-exceptions are All The Love That’s Wasted (CD2) from Dumbing Up – which was criminally removed when that album was reissued in 2006 – Kuwait City (CD4), a Beach Boys parody which was a hidden track on early pressings of Bang! and a pre-edit version of Thank You World (CD3). ![]() There are absolutely no studio album tracks from the five records released. It is full of fantastic songs, silliness, covers, some rough edges, the odd b-side and even a few hits (only as live tracks). It’s a White Album of a box set – more than you actually need, but with very little to dislike. Make no mistake, this is possibly the most satisfying release from the band since 1993’s Bang!. The Arkeology set has been out in the US for a while but only received an official release in the UK earlier this month. Five albums have been released in the last 25 years Private Revolution (1986), Goodbye Jumbo (1990), Bang! (1993), Egyptology (1997) and Dumbing Up (2000). Having left Mike Scott’s The Waterboys in the mid-eighties, Wallinger has been something of a one man band in the studio, overdubbing, layering instrumentation and recording with regular help from a small clique of musicians, namely Chris Sharrock (drums), Dave Catlin-Birch (guitar) and in the early days Robbie Williams’ future musical partner Guy Chambers (keyboards). It’s hard to imagine many other acts releasing a 70-track box set and deliberately avoiding existing album tracks (and studio hits), preferring to include unreleased material from the archive. With the five-disc ‘Any Year Diary’ Arkeology set, this is exactly what World Party have done. ![]() Here’s a reminder of who World Party are, and what Karl Wallinger himself had to say about Arkeology when we talked to him earlier in the year… ![]() Front man, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Karl Wallinger will be performing the hits and tracks from the excellent, career-spanning Arkeology, a five-CD set that was released in June (April in the US) and is being now being re-promoted to coincide with the gigs. ![]() World Party will be touring the UK very shortly including a date at the Royal Albert Hall on 1st November. ![]()
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