This band should change their name to "Music" For Sleep. What do they mean by Armor For Sleep anyway? Could caffeine be some sort of Armor to protect you from the evils of sleep? Or perhaps the reference is more akin to slipping between the sheets dressed like a hockey goalie to protect one from bad dreams? Or maybe it's something as straight-forward as wearing some sort of special PJs to wear whilst one slumbers so burglars don't come into your room and kill you before making-off with your Morrissey collection. A better alternative than protective sleep-wear would be to just have Armor For Sleep playing in the background. As the bad guys entered your room they would hear the music, begin to feel light-headed and drowsy and fall to the floor in the fetal position before they can carry out their dastardly designs - they'd wake rested after the best night of sleep they've enjoyed in a long time. They might even be so refreshed that they would wake early and fetch the paper, put some coffee and straighten up your place before they quietly let themselves out completely rehabilitated.

The point that I'm belaboring here is that Armor For Sleep's second album, What To Do When You Are Dead, is another collection of maximum chill-out shit and yes, more music to make sweet, sweet love to. The band's last album, Dream To Make Believe seemed to focus on sleeping, laziness, and all around stoner fatigue. The new one is all about the afterlife, ghosts, and keeping it "surreal." The songs are a little more upbeat than their last effort and seem held together with more traditional, tightly-welded choruses and beats. The album even comes with a handy pocket-sized instruction manual on the do's and don'ts of life as a dead person. The pictures are helpful, but mentions nothing about saying "Beatljuice-Beatlejuice-Beatlejuice" in rapid succession in order to receive assistance from Michael Keaton. If only Patrick Swayze had this booklet. He would've definitely contacted Demi Moore a lot sooner and spared us a good half hour of Whoopie Goldberg. I actually like these guys even though you might not guess it on the basis of this review. I suppose I just like to talk a lot of shit on people who are more talented than me. They're good dudes with good heads.