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Artifact Shore
Experimental / Psychedelic / Shoegaze

"do what makes you happy"

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA
United States

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Last Login:  7/17/2008
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   Artifact Shore: General Info
Member Since2/18/2005
Band Websiteartifactshore.com
Band MembersReid Kruger > Justin Martinez > Benjamin Pagel > Geoffrey Trelstad > Joe Thoen
Influenceshere are some bands we enjoy... Ride, Pop Group, the Fall, Pan Sonic, Sunn0))), Animal Collective, LFO, A Certain Ratio, Fennesz, Joy Division,
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   About Artifact Shore




The music of Minneapolis Artifact Shore evokes bleak post-apocalyptic landscapes, and ranges from industrial, frenetic rage to a meticulously layered melancholy. The band is alternatively reminiscent of stalwarts like Joy Division and Sonic Youth, with equal doses of early Big Black, the British shoegazer movement, and the more beat-oriented noise of Merzbow. That it all holds together while constantly threatening to break apart is an apt description of Artifact Shore’s aesthetic outlook.

The band began playing together in earnest in 2005, when its core members, who hail from a range of musical backgrounds, began honing their severe sound using a mix of traditional rock instrumentation with electronic sources. Since then the band has performed in clubs, galleries, and theatres in Minneapolis, New York, and elsewhere, and is beginning to earn a reputation for a sonically punishing stage presence.

On its most recent recordings, Landscape Removal (2006) and Fun is Near (2007) (both released on the band’s own label, Interference Shift) each song progressively constructs a seductively infectious architecture of fevered violence. Moving effortlessly from catharsis to introspection, Artifact Shore forges its own complex and haunted vision of terror and loss, as wave upon wave of sound surges ecstatically forward.



Our most recent release Fun Is Near has been reviewed in the Feb 08 issue of Wire. "Standout track "2 in 24" rips and rolls open this EP from Minneapolis based group Artifact Shore. The elements are simple but effective: slashed guitars, chorused vocals and robust electronic interventions placed with enough care to prevent songs becoming too predictably song-like. The mid-paced title track dwells in the same twilight world of broken melody and restrained vocals as Sonic Youth. The even slower "Insight and Action" is somnambulant and festers with malign intent, while the high-plucked bass and heavily echoed vocals of "Stupid Coma" distinctly recall Joy Division. Closer "On the Banks of Black" is a monochrome dirge more at home in the mill buildings of Manchester than Minneapolis. While the influences may be out in the open, Artifact Shore handle them with deft confidence and make them their own, and Fun Is Near an assured release." -Nick Southgate

Our split 7" with defunct band Bravo Team has been reviewed by Bryon Colley in the January 2008 issue of Wire. "As near as I can tell, this is a reissue of an out of print CD shared by these two groups, one of whom is from Minneapolis, the other of whom I’ve had trouble tracking (but they feel midwestern). Bravo Team actually sound like a decent variation on the standard rabid-foam guitar groups of the Ruthless/Am Rep era, which is something I miss more than I can easily explain. Suffice to say they have a certaiin amount of Killing Joke cunning and a lot of screech around their edges. Artifact Shore are a little tougher to grasp. Their moves are closer to those of their conemporaries in the Michigan noise underground, but they’re nowhere near as harsh as most of those proponents. They pile it up and pile it on, sure, but there’s a sinuousness inside the structures that seems almost psychedelic. Mmmm."
We (Artifact Shore) are humbled and honored to have had our latest CD EP "Fun Is Near" reviewed by Jack Rabid of The Big Takeover. Read it here or the magazine can be found at most good bookstores and news stands. Thanks.





Our "S/T" EP has been reviewed in the January issue of XLR8R. We still have a few of this limited release available here. "Minneapolis’ avant-garde quartet Artifact Shore offers up a solid, self-titled instrumental EP on Interference Shift that opens with seven minutes of pitter-patter thumps and laser synths akin to early Autechre. Elsewhere, it gets no happier but the group at least starts to use guitars, and should be recommended for its new-wave ethos alone. Those Minnesota winters can be tough." - Martin De Leon

Our"S/T" EP has recently been reviewed by Fallt Publishing. We still have a few of this limited release available here
"An early instrumental EP on Interference Shift, ’Artifact Shore’ offers a glimpse into the earlier stages of Artifact Shore’s development on a label which has carved out a deserved niche delivering multi-edition, multi-media works of real beauty. Interference Shift state that they "hope to create lasting popular culture artifacts" and with this and other releases they make good on their promises.

Four hypnotic tracks couple motorik rhythms with surface tapestries that shimmer and sheen, sparkling and atmospheric. ’Version 1’ opens with elastic rhythms grafted onto energetic and metronomic undercurrents, its persistent and weighty undertow recalling Mogwai’s relentless rhythms.

’Regional Winter’, the closing track, opens with foreboding rhythms, firm and insistent before unravelling a delicate surface guitar melody edged with careful electronics. A tightly wrapped package.

Packaged beautifully with minimal, blind debossed artwork by Interference - whose elegant limited edition bookworks are equally compelling - ’Artifact Shore’ is a rare combination: audio/visual gestalt." [NB]


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Jul 10 2008 2:49 PM

our very first video YAY!! By THE PRINT FACTOR
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Jul 3 2008 12:11 PM

lovin' your site!
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stay in touch, and best wishes!
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Jul 2 2008 7:39 PM

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Jun 28 2008 1:10 PM

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Jun 5 2008 3:02 PM

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Jun 4 2008 6:19 PM

Just stopping by to say thank you for the support, and to wish you an excellent day.

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Jun 2 2008 2:06 AM

Thank you...we try to dig on everyones interest's
or the sounds they enjoy,..We like what you had going on your page...and figured we would take the chance, you would like what we enjoy the most...and thats make music...but for the most part... now that we got that horrible and cheesy statement out of the way....this looks like another typical, but somewhat long band comment...
But heck at least its a comment... Right?
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May 28 2008 10:17 PM

Dear my friend!!!
I uploaded new two tracks called "Versus" and "Light Up The Darkness"!!
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I'm looking forward to your comment!!!

I'll be heading over to Canada in June to play music and film festival "North By Northeast" in Toronto with my band "ok city ok". I'm drummer! We're playing the "Silver Dollar Room" on 6/13 at 9:00.
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Apr 30 2008 10:47 PM

your music makes me want to dunk

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Apr 28 2008 1:55 PM

Heir to Madness greatly appreciates you! Please check back often, new tracks and the release of "The Citadel" are coming very soon!



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Apr 25 2008 5:55 PM




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Apr 21 2008 4:26 PM

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Apr 16 2008 3:55 PM

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New additions to our mighty gear list include the API 2500 stereo compressor, which gives us a complete API signal chain of pre’s, eq’s, compressors, console, and mastering compressor! Our vintage blackface Urei LA-3A and LA-4 also have arrived and are smoothing records out as we speak.
We’ve also acquired a Roccaforte Custom 18 head, a Fender Princeton '64 blackface, and a Soldano 4x12, an insanely punchy cabinet. Guitar players be notified – we’ve got toys! And for kids of all ages, our 6000+ game arcade machine has been installed and is distracting us to no end as well.

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Apr 16 2008 10:15 AM

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Apr 11 2008 7:55 AM

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