Armor For Sleep Band

Armor For Sleep were an emo/rock band. Their sophomore album, What To Do When You Are Dead, is widely regarded as one of the finest concept albums to come out of the scene in the early/mid 2000s.

Revisited WTDWYAD last night and it totally holds up. Very underrated, those songs are all so good and the concept works really well.

 

Good band

 

One of my favorites. I like their entire catalog but What To Do... is definitely their best album. Wish they hadn't broken up when they did. Each album they released had something unique about it.

 

I really don't care for Smile all that much but yeah those first two are so good

 

If Smile had been an EP...

1. Smile For The Camera
2. Run Right Back In
3. Somebody Else's Arms
4. My Saving Grace
5. Stars In Your Eyes
6. Hold The Door

 

Yep yep yep would've been really good.

Some days I think Dream is my favorite AFS album. It's got a pretty wicked concept too, plus the songs are just great throughout

 

Yeah songs like Dream To Make Believe, All Warm, My Town, Being Your Walls, Frost and Front Steps make it easy to sway me towards it being the best. Depends on the day.

 

Hah, we have very similar AFS opinions! Love all those tracks. Both albums are really underrated

 

I saw this and went running in case Dream finally got a vinyl pressing or something.

Welp while I'm here, Dream >>>> Dead > Broken > Smile. However, Run Right Back In is my fave AFS song.

 

Listened to Dream on my lunch break and yeah, it might actually be my favorite. That album is super......chilly? Like, it reminds me of winter and it's not quite as catchy as what came after but it's still excellent

 

Listen to What To Do When You Are Dead all the time. That bonus track is one, Very Invisible, is one of their best tracks.

 

Real bummed I missed that anniversary tour

 

Been listening to these guys all day. Dream to Make Believe is such a good winter album.

 

What To Do is def my favorite from these guys, but they never really had a "bad" release. I've always found Ben's voice a little grating though and have never been able to listen to them for too long in one sitting because of it haha

 

WTDWYAD is one of the best albums to come from that early 2000s emo rock scene. I discovered it and The Ugly Organ the same day and was blown away.

 

Apparently this came out 12 years ago today so I'm listening before bed for the first time in a couple of years, so good

 

what a classic album

 

What's this? WTDWYAD? Did you also listen to the b-side "Very Invisible"?

 

Oh yea ha my bad

 

I love how the drums are mixed on the record, very unique for that time period. It's funny bc I didn't love the record when it came out, thought it was too "generic" but when I listen to it now all I can think is I wish more bands existed that sounded like this

 

WTDWYD felt like a classic album of that era, but it almost felt like it absorbed and pandered too much to it.

Dream to Make Believe for me feels like the better album in terms of unique songs that still hold up and hold up by themselves. It finishes really strong too. Slip Like Space gives me shivers listening to it now - the guitar tone and melodies in that song have a fantastically quality to them that takes me right back to being 14-15.

 

The moment the first Car Underwater chorus kicked in for the first time, I was completely sold

 

Is there music like this still being made? If so where can I hear it?

 

HOLY CRAP. I havnt listened to WTDWYD for a couple years and I'm listening to it right now and it's DOOOOOOOOOIIIINNNN IT FOR ME. I've always loved and adored this record, I don't know why I took the hiatus from it. But yeah this record is actually like the best mid 2000s Emo album ever.

 

So weird how good it sounds now years later