Album Info Hide Show Artist: Archive Album: Call To Arms & Angels Released: Europe, 2022 Tracklist: A1 Surrounded By Ghosts A2 Mr Daisy A3 Fear There & Everywhere A4 Numbers A5 Shouting Within B Daytime Coma C1 Head Heavy C2 Enemy C3 Every Single Day D1 Freedom D2 All That I Have E1 Frying Paint E2 We Are The Same E3 Alive E4 Everything’s Allright F1 The Crown F2 Gold Info About Buying Vinyl From Our Record Store We are a small independent record store located at 211 High St, Preston in Melbourne, Australia (North of Northcote, between Thornbury & Reservoir) We buy and sell new and used vinyl records – if you have a collection you’d like to sell please click here . We ship Australia wide for a flat rate of $10 for standard shipping or $15 for express post. Free Shipping for orders $150 and over. You can also pick up your order in store, just select Local Pickup at the checkout. We also ship internationally – prices vary depending on weight and location. 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If you change your mind you have 30 days to return your record but you must cover the cost of returning it to the store. You can contact our Melbourne record shop at (03) 9939 3807 or at [email protected] Happy Listening! Description Hide Show Archives Call To Arms & Angels landed on 29 April 2022 via the bands own Dangervisit imprint, and it feels every bit like a group stepping back into a world that shifted under their feet. Its their first studio album since 2016s The False Foundation, and it arrives as a big, searching double set that pulls together the strands theyve been twisting since the late 90s. You get trip hop shadows, widescreen post rock, and those slow-bloom builds that have made their live shows such a cathartic place to stand. The bands shifting line-up of voices remains a secret weapon. Dave Pens weary intensity, Pollard Berriers clean ache, and Holly Martins luminous presence each tilt the songs in a different direction, with Darius Keeler and Danny Griffiths shaping the moods like patient architects. Theres a clear sense of purpose to the sequencing. Shouting Within sets the tone with a nervous synth pulse and skittering drums, a song that never tips into bombast but keeps the temperature high. We Are The Same? builds like a slow march, tension coiling around a chanted hook that sticks to your ribs long after the needle lifts. Then theres Daytime Coma, a 15 minute centrepiece that takes its time. It starts like a murmur in a quiet room, layers rise one at a time, and suddenly youre inside a storm of strings, guitar drones, and clipped vocal mantras. Archive have always excelled at the long game. Here they play it with a steady hand. Whats striking is how human the record feels in spite of its size. The arrangements breathe. Real strings bring grain and air to the electronics. Pianos are left dusty round the edges. Guitars crunch but never crowd. Mr Daisy leans into a crooked kind of pop, bright on the surface, unsettling underneath. Everythings Alright arrives like a lullaby with a cracked smile, the title working as both comfort and question. The production keeps things tactile, so even when the songs swell, you can still pick out the scrape of bow on string or a cymbals last shimmer. It makes the anxiety threaded through the lyrics feel lived-in rather than theoretical. If youve ridden with Archive since You All Look The Same To Me or Controlling Crowds, the connective tissue is obvious. Those records taught patience, and the payoff was always in the third or fourth movement of a song, when something clicks and the floor drops away. Call To Arms & Angels honours that tradition while sounding very much like a record made in the thick of recent years. Isolation, information overload, power and powerlessness, the need to move towards each other rather than retreat. The title points to both resistance and grace, and the music toggles between the two with quiet resolve. It also happens to be a terrific listen on wax. The Call To Arms & Angels vinyl pressing spreads the sprawl across multiple sides, which suits the dynamics. Side breaks give Daytime Coma and its neighbours room to reset your ears, and the low end blooms in a way that digital doesnt quite capture. If youre crate-digging, it sits nicely next to other Archive albums on vinyl, and its the sort of set Id recommend to someone wandering into a Melbourne record store on a rainy afternoon asking for something cinematic but not cold. You can buy Archive records online without much fuss, though Ill always put in a plug for keeping your favourite local stocked with the good stuff. For those browsing from afar, plenty of shops shipping vinyl records Australia wide have copies. Theres a quiet confidence here that comes from a band making the record they needed to make, not chasing a trend or pretending the world isnt messy. The singles did their job of teasing open the door, but the full run is where it all lands. Songs bleed into each other and then snap into focus at the right moment, and by the time the final notes fade you feel rinsed, in the best way. If youre new to Archive, this is a generous entry point. If youve been around for the long stretch, its one of those releases that reminds you why Archive vinyl has a dedicated section in so many collections. Call To Arms & Angels doesnt shout its importance. It just holds steady, keeps its nerve, and lets the music do the heavy lifting. Product Reviews Hide Show Write a Review