Architects
Daybreaker
Century Media
28 May 2012

by Raziq Rauf

After 2011’s ambitious but slightly unfulfilling The Here And Now, the UK’s premier tech metallers, Architects are back already with their fifth album, Daybreaker. And it’s really fucking good.

After the discordant chimed beginnings of opening song, ‘The Bitter End’, the album builds and builds until the jarring siren riffs of ‘Alpha Omega’ make me want to learn some sort of martial art – maybe all the martial arts – just so I can roundhouse dropkick a tree. With my head. Every day.

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…which means ‘These Colours Don’t Run’ is the first real taste we’ve had of the band’s forthcoming fifth studio album. So what can we infer from this track with regards to what Architects have in store for Daybreaker?

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Architects were second only to their buds, The Dillinger Escape Plan, as far as the Saturday night main stage line-up at Hevy Festival 2011 went – but are they ready to step up to the challenge? Has their much talked-about lurge towards “the mainstream” backfired? Tomas Doyle reviews…

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