With Enemies Like This's fiery opening drums and guitars, Radio 4 sound like a band who have returned to form and discovered what it is that made them so exciting in the first place. The military-like drums drive the song and work well alongside Dave Milone's urgent guitar lines which punctuate the song.
The chorus has a more immediate feel than previous Radio 4 releases, the result being that it could almost (yes, almost!) be mistaken for a Foo Fighters number. Whereas previous releases, which could all too often be drowned in their own portentousness, Enemies Like This is stripped of self-importance (though you do fear some elements remain with the opening line "I was a prisoner in a factory") and is all the better for it. It's very much in the vein of The Clash and Gang of Four, but Radio 4 pull it off with enough panache so as to avoid accusations of being derivative.
In Enemies Like This, the aggressively political Radio 4 have crafted something that lets the groove do the talking, a lean and lithe attack capable of delivering a sucker punch to 'the man'.
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