Armor For Sleep announce new album ‘The Rain Museum’
ARMOR FOR SLEEP have announced a new album!
Titled The Rain Museum, the upcoming album from the New Jersey-based post-hardcore band is the long-awaited follow-up to 2007’s Smile For Them, and is scheduled to be released in September this year, via Rude Records/Equal Vision Records.
The upcoming album intends to be a concept album built around a post-apocalyptic world where weather no longer exists on planet Earth and people come to a mysterious museum in the middle of the desert to look back on what life used to be like.
Speaking about the upcoming new album, vocalist Ben Jorgensen says, “we are very excited to share our new album, The Rain Museum. Back in 2020, at the start of the pandemic and at the start of our collective lockdown, I made it my mission to finish writing a concept album that had been in my mind for many years but was never able to bring to life. The Rain Museum was initially a short story I wrote many years ago about a post-apocalyptic Earth and a mysterious museum in the middle of the desert. Weaving the story into an album was going to be my quarantine project.
Unfortunately, my marriage of nearly eight years and basically my entire life fell apart as I was beginning the writing process. The one thing I had in my life to divert my attention from what I was going through was the creative process of writing that album. But because I couldn’t ignore what I was going through personally, I wound up writing about myself and what I was going through and putting that into the story of the album and into the world I had been creating for this concept record. In the end, it’s an album about facing some of the most painful parts of being human and how lost we can get. I just hope it will speak to people going through their own dark times, as my favourite art certainly helped me get through mine.”
Alongside the announcement of the long-awaited new album, ARMOR FOR SLEEP have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; How Far Apart. For the new music video, the band tapped director Jesse Korman [HOT WATER MUSIC, THE JULIANA THEORY] for a collaboration that yielded an emotionally-gripping tale of a life lived in reverse.
Watch the official music video for How Far Apart here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:
Track List:
1. The Rain Museum
2. How Far Apart
3. See You On The Other Side
4. World Burn Down
5. In This Nightmare Together
6. New Rainbows
7. I’m Not Myself
8. Whatever Who Cares
9. Rather Drown
10. A Teardrop On The Surface Of The Sun
11. Tomorrow Faded Away
12. Spinning Through Time
The Rain Museum is set for release on September 9th via Rude Records/Equal Vision Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
For more information on ARMOR FOR SLEEP like their official page on Facebook.
