Archive - Call To Arms And Angels - 2CD (2022)

ARCHIVE, the collective from south London, announces
the new album `Call To Arms & Angels' via
Dangervisit for April 8, 2022. `Call To Arms &
Angels', the band's twelfth studio album and the
first since `The False Foundation', released in
2016, is a 17-track double album recorded at RAK
studios in London with Jerome Devoise.

As a mirror of the world in the year 2021 the album
portrays not only the individual and collective
frustrations and challenges of the band, but also
the realities and daily struggles of all
individuals. A dark current drives `Call To Arms &
Angels' right at the beginning, which builds up on
its journey with a progressive, absorbing dynamic
that turns into aesthetic simplicity and gives the

album such a lovely contrast - which brings us back
to dark times, but also remembers moments of calm.

"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", tells
founding member Darius Keeler about the creation.
"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 album's second, ambient spherical single,
`Shouting Within', is accompanied by a video in
which singer Holly Martin reinforces the haunting
text passages about anger, vulnerability and fear
with her performance. "In the past two years we've
been seeing how constant fear and uncertainty can
impact human connections", tells Holly. "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."