Armor for Sleep - THERE IS NO MEMORY BIO How much of our past do we carry with us into the present? And how much of it should (or shouldn't) we leave behind? Those are the simple yet profound questions at the heart of There Is No Memory. The fifth full-length from Armor for Sleep-and the New Jersey outfit's second record after a 15 year wait for it's predecessor, 2022's The Rain Museum-it's songs force the listener to question the very nature of their existence, of what makes us the people we are. It does that because that's precisely what Ben Jorgensen was doing while writing it. While The Rain Museum was a record written in the throes of the dissolution of the Armor for Sleep frontman's eight year marriage and his subsequent divorce, it's setting was more fictional and metaphorical. By comparison, There Is No Memory is much more literal, much more grounded in the real world, and much closer to the bone. "When you're going through a traumatic experience," he says, "and are actually underwater in an event like that, it's very difficult to have any kind of perspective on anything other than that one thing that's consuming all aspects of your life. The Rain Museum was written right after I went through this crazy life event. For this one, in contrast, I'm higher off that waterline, and I have a broader perspective now. I've been taking stock of my life as a whole, and so I found myself thinking and writing about the strange experience of memories and the power they have over al ATTENTION: please remember that all Blu-Rays are Region A USA and all DVDs Region 1 USA and you will need a multi region Blu-Ray/DVD player to play them.