Armor For Sleep have officially announced that they’ve broken up. The New Jersey rock outfit formed in 2001 and released their third and final album, Smile For Them, in 2007. Frontman Ben Jorgensen released the following statement:

“it’s been a little over a year since our last tour and some of you out there have kind of figured out whats been going on with us. we never wanted to burden you all with a formal announcement of any kind and cause some type of commotion- we just thought it would be better to kind of drift away nice and easy… i am writing this strictly speaking for myself and i honestly don’t really know how pj anthony and nash will react to me being the one to write this, but i feel like it should come from me because ultimately it was me who decided it was best to leave things where they were.

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