What with the changing nature of the music industry, the number one albums club is becoming a very inclusive one. Architects’ industrial metalcore belongs within a lane that some would describe as niche, but 2021’s For Those That Wish To Exist hit the top spot despite any prejudice, a feat singer Sam Carter described as the equivalent of Leicester City winning the Premier League. (Google it).
If this changes the game for it’s follow up, there are no audible concessions to daytime radio, as Carter and his band mates continue to work through the mental and emotional impact of losing former songwriter Tom Searle to cancer in 2016. This time however as well as dealing lyrically with issues like the environmental crisis and the negative impacts of social media, they’ve chosen to celebrate his life, although on their own terms.
This manifests itself in different ways, but the classic symptoms of a broken spirit has sharp edges as well as the occasional flashes of subtlety as on burn down my house. The peaks however are still made up of face-shredding bursts of adrenaline like a new moral low ground and the towering opener deep fake; when these play, another spot on the podium beckons.
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The Voice Of Unreason 
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