THE ARMED DROP NEW LP 'PERFECT SAVIORS'

THE ARMED RELEASE NEW ALBUM PERFECT SAVIORS; LISTEN

On Perfect Saviors, the Armed are no longer a collective or a project, but a big ol’ rock band with superproducers, magazine covers, clean choruses, and slick videos, all in the service of meta-arena rock that critiques the concept of rock stardom itself. - PITCHFORK a larger-than-life, anthemic stadium rock album - THE NEW YORK TIMES PROFILE we're in The Armed's universe, where anything that's worth doing is worth doing spectacularly. - NPR It’s the Armed’s world and soon we’ll all be living in it - THE FADER COVER STORY  The Armed are a hyperreal assault on worn-out genre expectations and ideas of how a rock band exists or operates. In a world of interchangeable hardcore and metal bands that look like damp practice spaces and shit lager, The Armed are a funfair adrenaline spike. - THE QUIETUS Its shininess and catchiness are borderline radio-friendly, while still maintaining the darkness and complexity that fans have come to expect from the Armed’s various albums over the years. - SPIN Perfect Saviors is a group finally realising their concept – truly being the World’s Greatest Band. - THE LINE OF BEST FIT Turns out, the master plan is pretty straightforward calculus: constant ideas plus technical dedication plus obsessive quality control equals good shit. - BANDCAMP full catharsis-nirvana - STEREOGUM Perfect Saviors, has the potential to introduce their unruly creative spirit to a far wider audience. - THE GUARDIAN

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The Armed have released their new album, Perfect Saviors, produced by the band’s Tony Wolski along with Ben Chisholm and Troy Van Leeuwen, with contributions from Julien Baker, Sarah Tudzin, Mark Guiliana, Patrick Shiroishi, Justin Meldal-Johnsen and many more (full contributors list below). The album was mixed by Alan Moulder. Garnering a New York Times profile, cover stories from FADER, Revolver, and Kerrang, along with praise from NPR, The Guardian, Stereogum, Rolling Stone and much more the album is “the group’s most polished and likely most accessible record to date,” according to the New York Times. The band, who just wrapped up a three-week amphitheater tour with Queens of The Stone Age will head back out starting in October for shows in LA, San Franciso, Portland, Seattle, New York, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, and Detroit. Full details can be found here. The album concludes a trilogy of albums examining and dissecting what constitutes “pop culture” in a world of limitless information and access. Using “pop music” loosely as a format in which to express these ideas, each album used composition and presentation as a way to challenge these questions further. Perfect Saviors is the ultimate product of this evolution. Using one of the world’s most well-known mixing engineers to create a beautiful album fully immersed in the language and world of pop through the inherently unique, extreme, and perverse lens The Armed communicate their art.

The album was written by The Armed and performed by Ken Szymanski, Randall Lee, Tony Wolski, Dan Greene, Ben Chisholm, Urian Hackney, Cara Drolshagen, Troy Van Leeuwen, Patrick Shiroishi, Sarah Tudzin, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Mark Guiliana, Matt Sweeney, Bryan Aiken, Jacob Bannon, Julien Baker (courtesy of Matador Records), Eric Avery, Stephen Perkins, Josh Klinghoffer, Chris Slorach, Zach Weeks, Brian Wolski & Derek Coburn. Watch the video for “Sport Of Form” HERE Watch the video for “Everything’s Glitter” HERE Watch the video for “Liar 2” HERE Listen to Perfect Saviors: https://lnk.thearmed.com/TA-PS

Headline Dates 10/19 - Los Angeles, CA - El Rey ^ 10/21 - San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall ^ 10/23 - Portland, OR - Revolution Hall ^ 10/24/23 Seattle, WA - Nuemos ^ 11/16/23 Boston - Paradise Rock Club $*  11/17 - New York, NY - Irving Plaza$* 11/18 Baltimore, MD - Baltimore Sound Stage $* 12/15 Detroit, MI - Saint Andrew’s Hall ✝  12/16 Chicago, IL - The Metro ✝  ^ Shutups $ Body Meat  *SPACED ✝ Model/Actiz  Perfect Saviors TRACKLISTING Sport of Measure FKA World Clone Modern Vanity Everything’s Glitter Burned Mind Sport of Form Patient Mind Vatican Under Construction Liar 2 In Heaven Public Grieving FOR MORE ON THE ARMED Linktree Website Instagram Twitter