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Armor for Sleep - Dream to Make Believe Audio CD

A fair review of the Armor for Sleep "Dream to Make Believe" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Armor for Sleep reviews here, or go back to the Armor for Sleep tabs.

Armor for Sleep Band: Armor for Sleep
Title: Dream to Make Believe
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Release Date: 2003-06-03
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Armor for Sleep 2: Dream to Make Believe 3: All Warm 4: Being Your Walls 5: My Town 6: Wanderers Guild 7: Frost and Front Steps 8: Phantoms Now 9: Raindrops 10: Kind of Perfect 11: Slip Like Space

mediocre, mostly
Song 1 is a 30sec. The last song, number 11, is indispensiable. cool guitar melodic intro. 2 is 6 are good i guess or ok, 4 is pretty good, yes, but 5 & 3 are blah, while 6 is a little grating/repetitive. Song 4, "Being your Walls" is rather good, catchy, and 7 is catchy, but repetitive and slightly unremarkable. 8 is also repetitive, boring and unremarkable-- rather terrible, awful, grating (though a few riffs in it might bne redeaming): "you'll be a ghost, i'll be your dream, you'll float through me, i'll disappear. . . " over & over. You WILL be reacing for the skip button. Song 9, Raindrops, isn't bad at all, pretty melodious & beautiful. Heart-jerking, very catchy. Cool riffs. So it has a few good songs. But some of them are "filler. " Finally, song 10 is a slow, cool song. If you download some of theses insead, get 10, & 11 & maybe 9. You might also like 4 & 2, in that order i guess. At first, the dissappointment made me think, "Uh! 3 stars, but then 1/2-way through or more, i thought , no 4 stars. So it gets better as you go through it.
I really love this group, so it hurts to say that this album was a disappointment. If you like the samples in the MP3 download section here of #11, "slip like space," then you might like it. If on a budget, just download that song & set it on repeat along with a few other awesome songs from their other albums (like "A Short Little Trip" and "Basement Ghost Singing" from their other album, called: Things To Do When Your'e Dead.
BTW, their "extended tracks" vesion of this album only has one bonus track on that other one, hardly worth the extra doe. Why couldn't they have put a flash video on it or something, like ModestMouse did? I can't wait to get more of them, even though this had some weak ones in the first half of it. Not bad for the price at all. Like track 10 says, things can't be perfect; let some things go. . . . Overall, you MUST get track 11 Slip Like Space [even if you download just that MP3 for a buck, listen to the sample free on Amazon!). You will cream [like a mocha-chino]. It is unparalleled. Rifts from track 11 will drift through your head all night, so that you wil think you are in heaven & reach for the volume & repeat buttons. this alone might make it 4 1/2 stars because that one song at the end is unparalleled, making you want to surrender all of your money to them. .


Good to fall asleep to
The music is much better than the vocals and lyrics. This is an okay album at best. Many of the tracks have great openings but I am continually disappointed when Ben Jorgensen (vocals) opens his mouth. Also for being classified as emo, there is a lacking of emotion. This album would be better with different vocals.


Great CD
While there sophomore effort had some great tracks, this CD is a great listen all the way through. I bought this CD after buying there second CD, What to do When you are Dead, and was blown away. I had a chance to see them play at Penn State a month ago and they are a rocking band life, from the singer, the guitarists, and the drummer. "My Town" is the best song, catchy for the regular artists, but my favorite is the closing song. I would definitly get this CD over their second, and get ready for a great listen. Hope to hear more from these guys in the future.


Good Dreams
Heavily influenced
by the third wave emo sound (Sunny Day Real Estate for instance). Full of great melodies, lyrics about sleeping/dreaming (my favorite
past time activities), and Ben Jorgenson's voice. I believe this album out does What to do When You are Dead, in almost every way (though I still love the new album). The songs are more meaningful, and Ben's voice works perfectly with the tone and mood of the album. The highlights of the album are Armor For Sleep/Dream to Make Believe, Wanderers Guild, My Town (I used to love to run through my town and scare kids), and Slip Like Space.
(edited in 2008) Please vote below if you like the review.


AFS Are Gooood!
I think the music and lyrics are great, and Bens voice aswell. No I dont think their lyrics are bland. The lyrics compliment the music. No, it isnt terrible original, but that doesnt make is a bad CD.
Standout track for me:
Being Your Walls
Frost and Front Steps
Wanderers Guild.


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