Armor for Sleep, "The Truth About Heaven"
It’s that classic relationship story: boy meets girl; boy loses girl; boy drives car into body of water; boy finds out heaven is a downer; boy comes back as ghost stalker; boy realizes his death (& life) was inconsequential; boy beats it back to heaven, bummed Yeah, you’ve heard it all before, but Armor for Sleep breathes new life into the classic Disney formula on the under-appreciated classic What to Do When You’re Dead . Image: Sherrie Thai, Flickr (CC by 2.0) Now, I must admit that I kind of have a thing for concept albums about death. I played My Chemical Romance’s Welcome to the Black Parade into the ground (dig deeper and check out “Disenchanted” or “How I Disappear” ). But setting aside admittedly disconcerting middle age emo leanings, What to Do When You’re Dead is tremendous. Pretty sure Pandora turned me on to the album via the lead track “Car Underwater”. On first listen, I remember thinking...