The hidden secrets of Architects’ game-changing new album
Architects’ Sam Carter, Dan Searle and Josh Middleton exclusively take you deep inside the heart of new album For Those That Wish To Exist like never before…
Words: James Hickie
Photos: Tom Barnes
Architects’ ninth album has been rather a long time coming. While For Those That Wish To Exist features the Brighton titans’ first new music since 2018’s molten, mournful Holy Hell, several of the songs on this follow-up have been knocking around a good deal longer. Fourth track Discourse Is Dead, for example, began life when guitarist Josh Middleton shared ideas with drummer Dan Searle back in May 2018, six months before HH was even released. Impermanence, meanwhile, its industrial flavoured seventh track featuring Parkway Drive’s Winston McCall, started out as an ambient instrumental created by Josh a decade ago, before receiving a heavier overhaul more recently.
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Architects songs look at the state of the world and commiserate in the shit with the rest of us. A majority of their 2012 LP ‘
Daybreaker’ was them grimly wallowing under capitalism, materialism, societal rot, religion, and ideological differences, but then it concludes on ‘
Unbeliever,’ the most lovely, spiritually uplifting song they’ve ever made. This approach, this vibe, is something that ‘
For Those That Wish To Exist,’ recorded during England’s first lockdown, replicates. It’s an important sentiment: addressing the depressed mood of the world currently and its ordinary citizens, telling us to not fear death, to truly live in the now, to learn our lesson, and to make real changes on a personal level. To fight for our collective metaphorical and literal survival. Otherwise, you might as well stop existing. Because the band want the world to endure; they want to live; to move p