Armor for Sleep - There Is No Memory [LP - Red]

Release Date: January 16, 2026Label: Equal Vision RecordsHow much of our past do we carry with us into the present? And how much of it should (or shouldn't) we leave behind? Those are the simple yet profound questions at the heart of There Is No Memory. The fifth full-length from Armor for Sleep-and the New Jersey outfit's second record after a 15 year wait for it's predecessor, 2022's The Rain Museum-it's songs force the listener to question the very nature of their existence, of what makes us the people we are. It does that because that's precisely what Ben Jorgensen was doing while writing it. While The Rain Museum was a record written in the throes of the dissolution of the Armor for Sleep frontman's eight year marriage and his subsequent divorce, it's setting was more fictional and metaphorical. By comparison, There Is No Memory is much more literal, much more grounded in the real world, and much closer to the bone. "When you're going through a traumatic experience," he says, "and