While this record has been out for a long time, I just dug out my review of it from a couple of months ago and feel like posting it on here as I think it is one of the most genre shaping records of the past year.
This band has had its heights and lows before and recovered from a massive drop in their career. Hollow Crown/The Here And Now is up to this day a rather weak spot of the band as they ended up playing in front of almost nobody in small clubs after starting to fill venues with the capacity of over 2 000 people. When they put out Daybreaker, it seemed as if they were finally back on track and slowly started climbing upwards again. When LF//LT dropped within a year after that, nobody would have expected it to be such a huge progression and recovery, especially creatively speaking, again.
Gravedigger doesn't give you much time to prepare before it fully kicks in with huge riffs and Sam's indistinctive voice. The thought of them ever failing at creating huge tunes like that is hard to imagine at this point, seeing as the first song already has some of the biggest moments of the 2014 metalcore scene.
Naysayer doesn't let a simple spark of that energy die and drags you along the hurricane that is this record. "You can't stop me giving a fuck" states their intentions with this track more than clearly. After that, they don't stop with criticizing and approaching problems such as religion, as displayed in Broken Cross. Without slipping into the all too often heard same old sentences, they manage to take a new turn on the whole subject.
They do not disappoint a single time, instead, the record gets stronger with each song. The Devil Is Near's riff constructions throughout the whole song, Dead Man Talking's huge chant during the chorus, the anthem that is C.A.N.C.E.R., the more melodic and dramatic side with Colony Collapse ... I could go on.
To sum it up, the emotional weight Architects can put into their songs is uncanny and certainly one of a kind. There's hardly a band around these days to manage to speak to and move such a huge crowd with heavy tracks like these as them. To have a band in this genre headline a sold-out venue the size of the Roundhouse in London would've been unimaginable a few years back.
While the younger generations are certainly focused on bands such as them, with the flood of artists in the genre, they still managed to stand out and draw in the fanbase they have now.
They were not only in my favorite records of 2014 but certainly already managed to place themselves in my favorite gigs rank list of 2015. Unlike (sadly) a lot of bands these days, they actually deliver an even bigger show live than they already do on record and create a one of a kind atmosphere.
Favorite song(s): Gravedigger, Naysayer, Colony Collapse, Broken Cross
Overall: 9,5/10
Architects are currently finishing up their Australia tour. Check their website for the remaining dates: www.architectsofficial.com
Cheerio xx
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