News - Armor For Sleep Digital EP

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Armor For Sleep will be releasing a digital EP this summer and here’s a blog from their lead singer Ben:

"aloha. and hello to you.

its my birthday on (edit) friday (duh). does that make me excited? not really. i like celebrating my friends birthdays, i just hate the idea of making the people around me get excited for MY special day. i would kinda rather just let the whole thing pass without really much hoop-la. (hoop-la?). not because i feel awkward about it, i just feel like its kind of weird for the birthday person to be the one whos most excited that theyre alive. shouldnt everyone around them being the ones in celebration? i’m going to go out to dinner tomorrow night with a bunch of my family. which will be nice. i am four times an uncle now! all boys by the way. i think girls have stopped being born. i wonder if anyone else has noticed this yet. i REALLY wanted to go to medievil times for dinner, but it was hard to round up a party of people willing to spend 60 dollars to eat shitty food and smell horse poop throughout the whole thing. maybe i’ll go alone one night. that would forever solidify my trip to planet creepiness. i saw wall-e. i cant really explain how perfect (maybe?) the movie was. i was in a weird state of awe for the first hour of it. i havent felt that way in a while....,.,,., so for the summer we decided to release a digital only ep. i will go further into details about this pretty soon, but heres the idea. we are writing a massive amount of music right now. i love it. i feel so inspired and creative and i want to keep going and make the best album i am capable of making. that being said, we still have to do the projeKt revolution tour before we even begin recording, so we wanted to get some music out there to you guys. i thought it would be cool to record a few of the songs we have been jamming as they are right now to give you a taste of some new stuff, and also we wanted to put a couple of our favorite tracks on there that we have recorded but for whatever reasons didnt wind up putting on one of our actual albums. im really stoked about this and i know you will be too. to me, i just love getting songs out there. i dont care if they are full conceptualized albums, weird digital ep’s, voicemail messages, whatever. i mean, how long are we actually going to be alive for? who has time to wait for the "right moment" to do things. i would just rather let things come out. anyways. im rambling. its 3:01 am. i havent been able to sleep well since ive been home from LA. when i do sleep i am having nightmares about accidentally commiting crimes (usually horrendous ones) and then running away from everyone in my life who has suddenly turned against me. i know they are probably stress related dreams, but whole theyre happening they are so vivid and realistic that in the dreams i rule out the possibility that i am having a nightmare. i wake up out of breathe and pretty upset. when i go through phases where i dont remember my dreams i get frustrated, but at times like this i kind of just wish i woke up without any weird images to freak me out for the rest of the day. blah. i hope you guys are enjoying summer so far. gas prices are insane. starbucks is closing. a-rod is getting divorced. could be a bad summer. lets hope not."