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Smile for Them by Armor For Sleep
Smile for Them is an album by Armor For Sleep, released in 2007. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 2 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Hold The Door”, on 2 lists with a best position of #85.
Smile for Them, Armor for Sleep's third album, came out on Sire on October 30, 2007, and it was a hard-won one. The Teaneck, New Jersey band signed with Sire in early 2006, cut sessions with Ben Grosse in California, then scrapped those songs months later and started again with Machine producing at The Machine Shop in Weehawken and Loho Studios in New York.
Ben Jorgensen sings and plays guitar alongside PJ DeCicco, with Anthony DiIonno on bass and Nash Breen on drums, and the band trades its dreamy concept-album past for chunky emo and post-hardcore with echoes of Foo Fighters, the Smashing Pumpkins and Quicksand, all aimed at celebrity culture. "Williamsburg" led the way and "Hold the Door" followed in February 2008. Reviews were mixed, some praising Machine's punch, others calling the songs flat, and it proved their last album before a long hiatus.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Smile for Them on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hold The Door | 2 | #85 | – | 2008 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.