★★★★★
Sound: Recently I attended the Warped Tour, and had the privelage of hearing this great band. Upon my return to town I immediatley bought their CD and I'm glad to say I wasn't dissapointed. A band with the regular emo sound that you would hear at warped with a great twist thrown in. Awesome guitar riffs accompanied by the powerful drumbs really helped to bring out the best this band has to offer. // 10 Lyrics and Singing: Overall I was really pleased with the lyrics on this album...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Sound: I've been waiting for this CD for a very long time and Armor For Sleep, as always, absolutely thrilled me with their current release "Smile For Them". The Band has once again improved their overall sound but has kept it similar enough to bring back amazing memories of their previous album "What To Do When You Are Dead?" The use of edited and electronic rhythms and background noise once again perfectly establishes an amazing mood when listening to the CD and carries on all the way through...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Release Date: February 22. 2005 After a successful debut album in Dream to Make Believe, Armor for Sleep decided to create yet another concept album in 2005, What to Do When You Are Dead. The concept of the album is pretty straightforward: the protagonist of the album commits suicide, regrets and reflects on his decision in the afterlife, and visits places in his previous life...
- absolutepunk.net
2012-01-16
★★★★★
Following up 2003's Dream To Make Believe, Armor For Sleep have released a concept album with a drastically harder, rock and roll edge to it. While Dream to Make Believe did feature a sort of secondary concept behind it, on What To Do When You Are Dead the concept is presented much more clearly and has much more of an affect on the album's outcome...
- www.the-trades.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Described on their website as a "pure emo" band, Armor For Sleep aim to be exactly that, mixing a blend of punk rock with pop and raw emotions reflected in lyrics such as "Walked past my grave in the dark tonight." (The Truth About Heaven), "I would still die for you" (Car Underwater) and "I hear your footsteps move the floorboards above my head" (Basement Ghost Singing). This obsession with death and the beyond (The album title, song lyrics...even their fans are called Ghosthunters...
- www.musicomh.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
Where to begin? A cool style of music gains prominence in the wake of hardcore and punk. Fellas and ladies (well, mostly fellas, let's be honest) start realizing that chugging riffs go well when juxtaposed with moments of intense quiet, screams go well next door to soft singing, punk rock can be EMOtional as well as political... and emo is born...
- www.lostatsea.net
2010-02-19
★★★★★
Sound: A lot of people don't know that Armor for Sleep had an album before "What to do When Your Dead". As that cd, Dream to Make Believe is a concept album, talking about how you can escape reality in the dreamworld. Most people like to put AFS in the "emo" category, but that's all just opinion. Although the guitars aren't that exciting or anything, they're still solid and sometimes some unique stuff is thrown in. // 9 Lyrics and Singing: 01...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-11-15
★★★★★
Call it a concept album or a progressive step for emo, but What To Do When You Are Dead is an interesting notch along the battered branch of emo's legacy - only moderately so musically, but in idea, presentation, and production, Armor For Sleep gives its peers food for thought...
- www.lostatsea.net
2009-10-30
★★★★★
Armor for Sleep has had a pretty interesting career. I remember hearing them on a Victory Records compilation, back when Victory were champions of hardcore and had only just begun entering the fray of modern day "screamo" (what the hell happened?). Their debut on Equal Vision was a sleeper hit, filled with solid songs and appropriately titled Dream to Make Believe...
- www.adequacy.net
2009-07-21