ARCHITECTS — For Those That Wish To Exist

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Album · 2021

Tracklist


1. Do You Dream of Armageddon? (01:38)
2. Black Lungs (03:51)
3. Giving Blood (03:32)
4. Discourse Is Dead (03:46)
5. Dead Butterflies (04:02)
6. An Ordinary Extinction (04:07)
7. Impermanence (04:02)
8. Flight Without Feathers (03:48)
9. Little Wonder (03:47)
10. Animals (04:04)
11. Libertine (04:01)
12. Goliath (04:17)
13. Demi God (04:26)
14. Meteor (04:01)
15. Dying Is Absolutely Safe (04:59)

Total Time 58:22

Line-up/Musicians


- Dan Searle / drums, keyboards
- Alex Edwin Dean / bass, keyboards
- Adam Christianson / guitar
- Josh Middleton / guitar, vocals, keyboards
- Sam Carter / vocals

Guest musicians:
- Tim Lowe / cello
- Alexander Verster / double bass
- Liam Kearley / additional drums (track 15)
- Ignacio Montero Requena / horn
- Jari Kamsula / horn
- Palle Schou Nielsen / horn
- Susanne Skou / horn
- Patrick James Pearson / piano
- Parallax Orchestra / strings
- Fabrice Godin / trombone
- Jens Vind / trombone
- Marek Stolarczyk / trombone
- Anders Farstad / trumpet
- Nicholai Andersen / trumpet
- Tristan Button / trumpet
- Edward Bale / viola
- Antonia Kesel / violin
- Will Harvey / violin
- Amelie Searle-Desbiens / additional vocals (tracks 3, 4, 11)
- Aaron Douglas / choir vocals
- Christina Maynard / choir vocals
- Danny Le Prevost / choir vocals
- Dean Forrest / choir vocals
- Grace Lightman / choir vocals
- Jack Hamilton / choir vocals
- Kat Marsh / choir vocals
- Kate Pavli / choir vocals
- Rio Hellyer / choir vocals
- Tia Kalmaru / choir vocals

About this release

CD, digital and 12" vinyl 2LP released 26th February 2021 on Epitaph.

Vinyl pressings:

/300 - Clear (with Zoetrope Slipmat - Pop-Up Store Exclusive)
/300 - Crystal Clear with Solid Purple (Banquet Records Exclusive)
/500 - Black & White Explosion (Kings Road Merch US Exclusive)
/500 - Green Marbled [Green Leaves] (Kings Road Merch Europe Exclusive)
/500 - Blue Marble [Cool Blue] (Kings Road Merch Europe Exclusive)
/500 - Opaque Red Marbled [Bloody Mary] (Impericon Exclusive)
/500 - Smokey Marbled (Impericon Exclusive)
/500 - Red Translucent & Black Marble [Dracula]
/500 - Clear with Solid Blue & Solid Red [Hyacinth] (Kings Road Merch Europe Exclusive)
/500 - Blue & White Marble [Blue Dream Splash] (Revolver Magazine Web-store Exclusive)
/500 - White Opaque (24Hundred Exclusive)
/500 - Clear with Blue & Pink Swirl [Summer Sky Wave] (US Indies Exclusive)
/500 - Red & Black [Cherry Bomb Splash] (Kings Road Merch US Exclusive)
/750 - Clear with Blue & Red Splatter (Artist First/Kings Road Exclusive)
/1,000 - Blue Translucent (Impericon Exclusive)
/??? - Coke Bottle Clear (EU Indies Exclusive)
/??? - Black Marbled [Black Clouds]
/??? - Black (EU Retail)
/??? - Black (US Retail)

Thanks to Bosh66 for the addition

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I think we can all agree that what the world really needed right now was yet another rock band yelling at us about what's wrong with us and the world. While all of us struggle, both individually and collectively through our overwhelmed political institutions, to withstand nature's latest device for knocking off humans, I am grateful to have Architects reminding us to pay attention to the world's real problems. For decades now, successful musical artists have an established tradition of warning their listeners of the imminent environmental collapse to befall us. As we the sheeple are just too caught up in the undertow of our own selfishness and quest for survival, its up to the artist, detached as he or she might be from frivolous shortsightedness, to educate and inspire us to action. For Those that Wish to Exist, with its totally savage takedown of apathy, will undoubtedly be regarded by history as the turning point.

As important and relevant as the messaging might be, it is further enhanced by the musical breakthroughs explored by the band on this release. By repeating the same formula in nearly every song, the message of imminent doom and the complete moral failure of the human race is drilled into the deepest recesses of the listener's brain. And, in 2021, who would expect a modern metal act to incorporate more and more industrial and electronic accompaniments to an otherwise standard metalcore foundation? Musically speaking, I really don't think it would be hyperbole to crown Architects as the Coldplay of metal. This is music for the masses of consumers looking for an experience of emotion without having to put in any of the work.

I thought about scheduling this review to post on April 1st but realized readers may think I was being sarcastic in my assessment of this record. So here it is a week late for your reading and listening pleasure...

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