Physical Energy/ Drive, by Archangel (7" on Medical Imprint)

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Archangel are set to release their second superb single on 30th July. Essentially a double A side, Physical Energy / Drive is more “corking angular art punk” (NME) but is so much more than that.

Physical Energy (The cover depicts the bronze statue in Hyde Park of the same name by G F Watt) whilst musically anaemic is lyrically nasty, brutish and short. Racked by insomnia as well as worry, the song is an observation of one who is asleep by one who is awake.

Drive on the other hand, is more musically sophisticated though light hearted, particularly in relation to the production, which much like the statue, borders on what one might call dubious taste. There is a reason for this; the song has a deliberate lyrical immaturity and a subject matter not a million miles away from what Philip K Dick might consider plot worthy.. for the record, it’s the story of a computer that falls in love with its owner..

“this machine will give you love, have a care, one’s enough.
Piece of you, have some fun, line of code, nought or one”

With no obvious result although its pretty clear what that would be. The stunning coup d’etat of this clever counterfeit appears to place Archangel firmly in some kind of Lost Future version of late 1970’s early 1980’s Britain, a landscape where optimism and nihilism cohabit quite satisfactorily.

Archangel have released one record to date, an alarmingly good three track EP came out in February 2007. The EP kicked off with How To Lose Your Best Friend, an apocalyptic three minute blast of 1977 inspired pop punk., essentially a song about drug addiction:

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