History
The band was founded by Ben Jorgensen in 2001, in New Jersey. Nash Breen and PJ Decicco later joined Armor for Sleep after leaving fellow New Jersey band Prevent Falls, whose singer in turn went on to form The New Self Defense. Jorgensen stated the name of the band, Armor for Sleep, comes from his early experiences of writing music and not being able to sleep. As he recalls, "I guess when I started the band I was kind of, like, retreating in my room and I kind of couldn't really fall asleep, so I started playing music. I just thought of the name Armor for Sleep, because it was really, the music was keeping me from passing out! Which was something I was procrastinating on."
Ben would go on to record demos of songs that would later be re-recorded and released on their first album Dream to Make Believe. These demos would circulate through the internet and become very popular with fans for their raw sound.
The band originally signed to Equal Vision Records and released their first two albums, Dream to Make Believe in 2003 and What to Do When You Are Dead in 2005, with the label. Armor for Sleep signed to Warner Brothers/Sire Records in 2006 to release their third record, explaining it was "time for a change".
A Machine Shop remix of their track "Remember to Feel Real" was featured on the Snakes on a Plane soundtrack in August 2006. The band had a new track entitled "End of the World" on soundtrack for the 2007 film Transformers.
Their third full-length album Smile for Them was released on October 30, 2007.
On August 20, 2008, a blog entry on the band's website announced an extended play (EP), entitled The Way Out Is Broken. Armor for Sleep announced a recent unreleased track of theirs on their official website entitled, "Chameleons". The track was posted onto Supload.com to download.
Read more about this topic: Armor For Sleep
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“... that there is no other way,
That the history of creation proceeds according to
Stringent laws, and that things
Do get done in this way, but never the things
We set out to accomplish and wanted so desperately
To see come into being.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“This above all makes history useful and desirable: it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)