On release this was TOP 10 and I believed (as I still actually do) this is by far the best thing that Architects have released since 2016’s game-changing “All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us”. So before the negatives, let’s do the positives as it is a really good album that further expands and commercialises their sound. This is an album aimed at the thousands that have discovered them through arenas and festival headlines. It is clean, crisp and full of killer hooks and anthemic choruses. And that is also the reason it has steadily fallen down the list on repeat listens. It is good but it lacks the emotional weight that “All Our Gods” had. This is a band with sadly less to say and complain about. Whilst it is a very good record and still the 71 best I’ve heard this year (out of over 800) it lacks the pain and suffering that always defined them. 

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