ARCHITECTS
Album number nine is imminent for the UK’s national treasures
Architects: bring on the collabs!
2020 had an eventful run-in for Architects. They unleashed a surprise new single in October with Animals, showcasing another step forward in a sound that’s evolved dramatically in recent years, and played a scintillating livestream at London’s Royal Albert Hall venue a few weeks later. “My heart is so full,” frontman Sam Carter would say following the show. “Thank you all for watching. It really does mean the world to us.” Perh aps the biggest Architects event of all, though, was the official announcement that the band’s ninth studio album, For Those That Wish To Exist, would be coming in February. If the shiny, industrialised stomp of Animals wasn’t enough to pique fans’ interests over where Architects’ new music was heading, two more new tracks, Discourse Is Dead and Dead Butterflies, were given their live debuts at the Royal Albert Hall show, before anot her single, Black Lungs, was released soon after.