Album review: Architects – The Sky, The Earth & All Between

Here it is, then – the latest pendulum swing from Architects. With their last two albums, For Those That Wish To Exist (2021) and the classic symptoms of a broken spirit (2022), the Brighton heroes did the one thing no one had expected of them: diverting from the musical and thematic heaviness of the records that had come before, paring down the technicality in order to do more with less, which, for them, presented a fresh challenge.  And while For Those That Wish To Exist perfectly embodied that bigger and more bombastic idea, its follow-up saw its restless creators already pushing for new sounds and new ground, much of it less heavy and more deliberate in its catchiness, and proving somewhat divisive as a result.  The Sky, The Earth & All Between (produc...

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