Architects successfully run the gauntlet with their new material
KEVIN NIXON
TONIGHT IS A hometown launch show for Architects’ 10th studio album, The Classic Symptoms Of A Broken Spirit – arecord that has already proven to be pretty divisive. The online discourse has been about whether the Brighton metalcore mob’s new direction of far more straightforward, instantaneous and hook-filled tunes is the right one for them. On the evidence of their performance here, anyone who doubts these new songs really should get out and see them in the live setting immediately, because as soon as they step onto the tight confines of Chalk’s stage and blast into Deep Fake, any fears the new material will flop live evaporate in seconds.