Album review: Architects – For Those That Wish To Exist At Abbey Road

Discussing Architects’ ninth album, For Those That Wish To Exist, in February of last year, Dan Searle justified a change of approach that would take many by surprise. ​“Obviously we’re known as being a technical band,” the drummer explained. ​“But I felt we’d exhausted that to some degree, so started to feel drawn to doing more with less, which is a great challenge in some ways.” It was certainly a challenge they were equal to, scoring them their first Number One record in the process. So why have the Brighton titans decided to add more to that ​‘less’? Whatever their reasons – vocalist Sam Carter’s Beatles obsession will surely have been a factor in recording at Abbey Road – this act of embellishment, performed with The Parallax Orchestra, is a valid do...

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