Dream to Make Believe
Encyclopedia
Dream to Make Believe is the debut studio album
by American rock
band Armor for Sleep
, released June 3, 2003 on Equal Vision Records
.
Like the album's successor, What to Do When You Are Dead
(2005), Dream to Make Believe is a concept album
. Its themes include the dream world, sleepwalking, and how to keep the things you want as long as you stay asleep.
Production
Studio album
A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...
by American rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
band Armor for Sleep
Armor for Sleep
Armor for Sleep was an American rock band from New Jersey, formed in 2001 and disbanded in 2009. The final lineup consisted of lead vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Ben Jorgensen, lead guitarist PJ DeCicco, bassist Anthony DiIonno and drummer Nash Breen....
, released June 3, 2003 on Equal Vision Records
Equal Vision Records
Equal Vision Records is a record label based in Albany, New York, which has a focus in metal or punk-based rock genres. Equal Vision Records was founded in the early 1990s by Ray Cappo ....
.
Like the album's successor, What to Do When You Are Dead
What to Do When You Are Dead
What to Do When You Are Dead is the second studio album by American rock band Armor for Sleep, released February 22, 2005 on Equal Vision Records...
(2005), Dream to Make Believe is a concept album
Concept album
In music, a concept album is an album that is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical." Commonly, concept albums tend to incorporate preconceived musical or lyrical ideas rather than being improvised or composed in the studio, with all songs contributing...
. Its themes include the dream world, sleepwalking, and how to keep the things you want as long as you stay asleep.
Track listing
Personnel
Band- Ben JorgensenBen JorgensenBen "Slork" Jorgensen was the lead singer and guitarist of the New Jersey band Armor for Sleep. He wrote the first Armor for Sleep songs during the summer after his first year in college, and recorded them as a demo cd for $100 at a local recording studio, playing all the instruments himself. He...
- vocals, rhythm guitarRhythm guitarRhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
, lyricsLyricsLyrics are a set of words that make up a song. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist or lyrist. The meaning of lyrics can either be explicit or implicit. Some lyrics are abstract, almost unintelligible, and, in such cases, their explication emphasizes form, articulation, meter, and symmetry of... - P.J. DeCicco - lead guitarLead guitarLead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
- Anthony Dilonno - bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
- Nash Breen - drums, percussion
Production
- Ariel Rechtshaid - Production, engineering, mixing, synthesisers
- Chris Fudurich - Additional engineering, mixing
- Chris Knight - Assistant at Standard Electrical Recorders
- Brian Gardner - Mastering
- Pam Piffard - Photography
- Chris Strong - Album photography, graphic construction