If with modern studio magic, you could condense the last three Radiohead albums into three tracks, order them into conventional Oasis song structures, get David Arnold (composer, everything from James Bond to little Britain) to layer some lush strings over it all and then get Kasabian to play it, you might get somewhere in the region of Archive's sound.
Their bio informs us that they're big in France and they scored a Luc Besson flick form 2003. even though that movie was probably Besson produced Jason Statham vehicle "The Transporter", we shouldn't hold that against them.
Archive are a stimulating and intelligent act, they're experimental enough to be different and the cinematic strings make the tunes seem almost anthemic. The three songs are atmospheric, edgy and futuristic without getting all Muse on us. Archive's achilles hell is that the three songs are all quite different from the last one, and although a feel is formed, is doesn't feel definitive of the band.
