Sleeping With Sirens has spent the last 17 years confronting the intricacies of the human condition without fear. The alt-rock five-piece lives as the soundtrack to countless listeners’ own struggles through frontman Kellin Quinn’s deeply personal songwriting across each release. Their latest album, An Ending In Itself, reinforces their commitment to vulnerability and resilience while revitalizing their spirit as a band. “We definitely felt like we made the best Sirens record that we possibly could,” rhythm guitarist Nick Martin tells Melodic Magazine. “It feels really great going into this album cycle with that confidence.”
Produced by Will Yip (Turnstile, Circa Survive, Movements), An Ending In Itself emerges as the final chapter in of the emotional arc previously introduced by How It Feels To Be Lost (2019) and Complete Collapse (2022). Their latest effort celebrates the band’s roots with a reimagined grit, letting their unwavering artistic vision and passion breathe truth into the journey outlined by this musical trilogy. “The fun part of it was that it was really done on a subconscious level,” Martin says. “I don’t think, from Kellin’s perspective, that when we started How It Feels To Be Lost that it was going to be the start of a trilogy.”
“He realized going into finishing Complete Collapse that there’s a journey that he specifically was on,” Martin continues. “He could see this path he was taking from where How It Feels To Be Lost and Complete Collapse met when he went into writing for An Ending In Itself. I think he realized that this painted a bigger picture for him, and we realized this is a trilogy of a body of work.”
Each of the three albums captured the natural progression of Quinn’s journey towards emotional acceptance. How It Feels To Be Lost became the starting point filled with despair and isolation before Complete Collapse signaled a spiral into ruthless self-reflection in a post-pandemic world. An Ending In Itself eventually took shape as the cathartic conclusion to the trilogy, trading the pessimistic trajectory of the previous two albums for optimism and resilience.
The evolution between each record not only strengthened Sleeping With Sirens’ sound and storytelling abilities, but also their bond as bandmates, friends, and brothers. “At least from just a personal standpoint, he’s my brother,” Martin says of Quinn. “Seeing his progression and journey that he’s been on and then seeing now that he’s come to that light at the end of the tunnel was a really beautiful thing.”
“I think that’s just the beauty of our band and our art, but also just a massive kudos to Kellin,” he adds. “He wears his heart on his sleeve, but it’s even just beyond that. He’s such an artist through and through, and being alongside him on that journey and facilitating that and building this foundation for him to really be exactly who he wants to be and talk about exactly what he wants to talk about, I mean, that’s why we do this. I feel very fortunate to be in a band with someone like him who just sees music so differently than the rest of us, but is able to convey that to so many people.”
An Ending In Itself is the product of choosing to get better rather than surrendering further to the darkness that consumes your life. From start to finish, the album flips the script on the negative connotation of endings and proves that better things wait on the opposite end of suffering. “Everyone in the band will say this, I’m always the positive optimistic guy so I think that this record really resonated hard with me because it was that. It was the power of optimism even through dark times. That’s hard for everybody, and that’s still hard for me, too,” Martin says. “Even if they can’t see that there is a light at the end of the tunnel, knowing that it’s being put out there that we have gone through these hard times. We all have, but there is some sort of positive outlook to be had at the end of it, even if you don’t see it now.”
“I like the theme of finding some sort of optimism even when it’s so dark, and achieving that,” he continues. “I think that the best part of this record is that it was an achievement being able to get to that point, and that resonates hard as hell with me, and I think that’s a really beautiful thing..
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