ARCHIVE: new album announced
ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM CALL TO ARMS & ANGELS
SET FOR RELEASE ON APRIL 8, 2022 ON DANGERVISIT / [PIAS]
SHARE NEW SINGLE “SHOUTING WITHIN” TODAY
+ WATCH THE OFFICIAL VIDEO + PRE-ORDER CALL TO ARMS & ANGELS
Acclaimed South London collective Archive announce Call To Arms & Angels, their brand new album set for release on April 8, 2022.
Today, they share the album’s second single “Shouting Within” accompanied by a beautiful video that features Archive vocalist Holly Martin. Her performance brings a poignance to her striking lyrics wrought with anger, vulnerability, and fear.
On the track, Holly shares:
“In the past two years, we’ve been seeing how constant fear and uncertainty can impact human connections. Writing ‘Shouting Within’, we were talking about how people have been feeling so angry, so paralysed and so vulnerable getting caught in the divide. Craving connection but fearing contact. So many theories, stories, highs and lows. It’s hard to suppress the inner rage that grows from that.”
The band’s twelfth studio album, Call To Arms & Angels, is a 17 track double album (triple LP) recorded at RAK studios in London. Produced by long time collaborator Jérome Devoise, it is the band’s first studio album since 2016’s The False Foundation.
A reflection of the world in 2021, the album mirrors not only the bands individual and collective frustrations and challenges that were bestowed upon them, but a wider reflection of others whose lives were polarised by the reality of the daily struggles many faces through health, wellbeing, and individual socio-economic circumstance.
This album is a journey. Its dark undercurrent drives from the beginning, building throughout with a progressive absorbing momentum which then breaks to some beautiful simplicity giving the album an irresistible contrast reminding us of the deeper darker times but also the moments of calm often thrust upon us through stark realities!
Talking about the making of the new album Darius Keeler says:
“To reflect on these times as artists brought up a darkness and an anger, but also a strange kind of inspiration that was at times unsettling. It really made us appreciate the power of music and how lucky we are to be able to express our feelings in this way. It seems there is light at the end of the tunnel, but there are always shadows within that light.”
The release of “Shouting Within” follows September’s release of the band’s 14+ minute epic-yet-haunting “Daytime Coma,” the first single from the album. The band will be announcing news about their Super 8 documentary which is accompanied by the Super 8 soundtrack that is available as part of the deluxe editions of the album.
Tracklisting:
Call To Arms & Angels – CD / Streaming Sites
CD1
1 Surrounded By Ghosts
2 Mr Daisy
3 Fear There And Everywhere
4 Numbers
5 Shouting Within
6 Daytime Coma
7 Head Heavy
8 Enemy
9 Every Single Day
CD2
1 Freedom
2 All That I Have
3 Frying Paint
4 We Are The Same
5 Alive
6 Everything’s Alright
7 The Crown
8 Gold
Call To Arms & Angels – Vinyl
Disc 1: Side 1
1 Surrounded By Ghosts
2 Mr Daisy
3 Fear There And Everywhere
4 Numbers
5 Shouting Within
Disc 1: Side 2
1 Daytime Coma
Disc 2: Side 3
1 Head Heavy
2 Enemy
3 Every Single Day
Disc 2: Side 4
1 Freedom
2 All That I Have
Disc 3: Side 5
1 Frying Paint
2 We Are The Same
3 Alive
4 Everything’s Alright
Disc 3: Side 6
1 The Crown
2 Gold
