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What to Do When You Are Dead
Rock · 2005 · 11 tracks

What to Do When You Are Dead

Armor for Sleep

A cinematic concept album exploring the afterlife through murky guitars and breathy vocals. Melancholic, submerged, and deeply existential emo.

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It's a concept album about being a ghost, and it sounds exactly as haunting as that sounds.

A haunting, cinematic exploration of isolation and the afterlife wrapped in shimmering, murky guitars.

What to Do When You Are Dead · vs · Armor for Sleep
Death Mortality+4.0σ

The writing leans far further into death mortality than the rest of the catalogue.

Tracklist · 11 Tracks
01
Car Underwater
3:49
02
The Truth About Heaven
3:31
03
Remember to Feel Real
3:21
04
Awkward Last Words
3:46
05
Stay on the Ground
4:30
06
A Quick Little Flight
2:12
07
The More You Talk the Less I Hear
4:05
08
Basement Ghost Singing
4:36
09
Walking at Night, Alone
4:14
10
I Have Been Right All Along
3:46
11
The End of a Fraud
5:11
Moments Worth Waiting For
the muffled, submerged production on the opening of Car Underwater that feels like being trapped beneath the surface
the transition in A Quick Little Flight where the guitars soar to mimic the sensation of hovering above the trees
the haunting repetition of they never heard one sound in the final minutes of The End of a Fraud
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