The band gives a cinematic experience when performing live, backing their music up with synchronised visuals created by Dado Ramadani.
[1] Both Max Lewis and Mirza Ramic were members of The List Exists, a post-rock band from Brunswick, Maine.
[2] The first release from Arms and Sleepers was the Bliss Was It in That Dawn to Be Alive EP, which was put out on Fake Chapter Records in November 2006.
The group's first full-length album, Black Paris 86, was released in 2007 on both CD (Expect Candy Records) and 2x12" vinyl (Ericrock), and received a lot of praise in reviews.
The album was well-received, and was noted for being more vocal-centric than their previous releases, featuring Japanese label mates and Uzi and Ari vocalists Ben Shepard and Catherine Worsham on The Architekt and 29 Palms[4][5][6][7] Arms and Sleepers also released a split EP with The American Dollar, entitled From the Inland Sea.