Armor For Sleep return with a stirring new chapter in their career, releasing the music video for “Last Days,” the latest single from their brand new album ‘There Is No Memory.’ Recorded with producer Sam Guaiana (Silverstein, The Devil Wears Prada, Between You and Me), the album finds the New Jersey band confronting questions of identity, loss, and the emotional weight of recollection. It’s a powerful reflection on how our pasts shape who we are.
“’Last Days’ is about imagining an ex as an old lady on her deathbed and wondering if she will evaluate her life and think what would have been if we had stayed together,” explains frontman Ben Jorgensen. “In the song I’m fighting with myself by saying ‘I know I shouldn’t care anymore,’ but admitting that there is a part of me that still does and always will care. The chorus is ‘maybe there’s a part of me that’s lost inside a reflection of a memory.’ I would sell my soul not to care anymore.”
The album digs deep into the aftermath of Jorgensen’s divorce, but unlike 2022’s ‘The Rain Museum’—which filtered heartbreak through metaphor and fiction—’There Is No Memory’ strips away abstraction for a raw, lived-in truth. The title emerged from a serendipitous computer crash during early demos, when an error message flashed the words “THERE IS NO MEMORY.” Rather than despair, Jorgensen took it as a sign, shaping the album around the tension between remembering and letting go.
Across songs like “The Outer Ring,” “Breathe Again,” “In Another Dream,” “What A Beautiful World,” “Ice On The Lake,” and “All The Best,” the record moves from turmoil to acceptance. It’s filled with moments of emotional vulnerability and striking honesty, where haunting memories collide with the search for peace. “It’s an exploration of me wondering how much of my life is controlled by what I’ve been through,” says Jorgensen. “And trying to unpack all sorts of different memories—relationships, betrayals, addictions, friends I’ve lost along the way. It’s me wondering if I am just the collective sum of all the things I’ve lived through or if there is a me underneath it all who can still choose his own fate.”
‘There Is No Memory’ stands as Armor For Sleep’s most introspective work yet—an album that gazes unflinchingly at the ghosts of the past while reaching for meaning in the present.