NewsJuly 12, 2022 9:45 AM ET4,613 views

Architects announce new album 'the classic symptoms of a broken spirit', premiere video

Official press release:

Today, Architects announce a brand new studio album entitled 'the classic symptoms of a broken spirit', which will be out via Epitaph on October 21st. The announcement comes with the release of lead single "tear gas", an arena-ready anthem packed with industrial stomp.


'the classic symptoms of a broken spirit'
will be the band's 10th studio album and is the follow-up to last year's critically acclaimed album 'For Those That Wish To Exist'The band barely had time to celebrate success when they began the process of writing the songs that make up the new record.  Produced by Dan Searle and Josh Middleton, with additional production from Sam Carter at Deacon's Middle Farm Studios and their own HQ, Electric Studios in Brighton. The band was buoyed by finally being back in the room together after their last album was made mostly remote due to COVID restrictions, the result was something altogether more "free, playful and spontaneous" the band's drummer and songwriter Dan explains. "This one feels more live, more exciting, and more fun – it has that energy. We wanted it to be a lot more industrial and electronic," agrees frontman Sam Carter.

Layers of electronic and industrial elements infuse the album with a blast of energy that sets the cinematic moodscape for the 11-track ride. There is more than a passing nod to the band's post-rock influences as well as now familiar fist-pumping anthems such as "when we were young", and new single "tear gas".  "Anything is possible – wake up the unstoppable."



the classic symptoms of a broken spirit tracklist:

01. deep fake 
02. tear gas
03. spit the bone 
04. burn down my house - 
05. living is killing us 
06. when we were young 
07. doomscrolling 
08. born again pessimist 
09. a new moral low ground 
10. all the love in the world 
11. be very afraid 

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anonymous 7/12/2022 6:54:20 AM

What does RAGINGf*ckMAN think of this?

anonymous 7/12/2022 6:54:31 AM

HEALEYS WACK

anonymous 7/12/2022 6:56:05 AM

WACK

anonymous 7/12/2022 7:21:29 AM

Hornswaggle McMahon is the hero of our generation

pontoon_boat 7/12/2022 7:28:06 AM

*floats*

anonymous 7/12/2022 7:28:48 AM

Rick_tochett jerks off to Vladimir putin while Cumming on the American flag.

anonymous 7/12/2022 8:08:50 AM

Oh these guys are allowed to have fun again? Considering they scrubbed their pre-Epitaph web presence and all their silly studio/album recording documentaries and videos, I assumed they were too dark and spooky for funny music video gimmicks.

anonymous 7/12/2022 8:41:49 AM

Fartchitects - Rear Ass

NorthFromHere 7/12/2022 9:55:17 AM

Awesome. Now Architects are on the cycle of releasing material way too frequently just like Boris and King Gizzard. It's never the good bands vomiting out albums every year.

anonymous 7/12/2022 12:31:05 PM

Song started off sounding like shitty Rammstein and ended up sounding like shitty Bring Me The Horizon. Fine work.

anonymous 7/12/2022 12:53:14 PM

I heard rick_tochett trolls urban red-light districts in Florida looking for Vladimir Putin lookalikes to pay for a sexy role play. Rick has a BDSM horse costume with dick holes and asshole holes and he pays the putin lookalike prostitute to ride him around shirtless with his dick in his ass while Rick wears the horse costume.

anonymous 7/12/2022 6:34:22 PM

I wish trump would f*ck my ass and Mitch McConnell would jerk off on live television. I wanna join azov battalion hell yeah Fox News is amazing

anonymous 7/13/2022 12:27:06 AM

Trash.

anonymous 7/13/2022 12:30:50 AM

Frrrrrrrrt

anonymous 7/13/2022 7:06:03 AM

Abbey Road not even once.

anonymous 7/13/2022 7:26:42 AM

Imagine the poor sound engineering interns working Abbey Road, excited to work with some of the world's best musicians in studio... and then this band walks in.

anonymous 7/13/2022 7:42:49 PM

Liberal cuck here, this stuff isn't gay enough. Needs more penis and butt plugs.

anonymous 7/14/2022 10:55:21 AM

It's a shame that this entire band didn't come down with the cancer

anonymous 10/23/2022 4:14:09 PM

Possibly one of the Best Architects Albums I listened To, I am gonna take my friend to a Architects concert, Cause he Has not Heard the band "Architects" Before other than Learn to live, I still bought him a ticket and I don't care if he Likes Architects After the Concert on Monday, I just hope he gives a shit that Architects Are a Good band, But Anyways The Classic Symptoms of a broken spirit is a Good Album possibly the best album from Architects




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