Ben Jorgensen finds inspiration in isolation.

“I could be perfectly happy being all alone,” he says.

As the frontman and songwriter for emo up-and-comers Armor for Sleep, Jorgensen may find it harder to have some time alone.

Named one of Alternative Press’ 100 bands you need to know in 2005, Armor for Sleep is on tour around the United States in support of its second album, “What to Do When You Are Dead.”

“The new album is doing really well,” Jorgensen says.

“It’s like springtime for the band again. Everybody wants to talk to us.”

The band is on a nationwide tour that kicked off in February.

Jorgensen says it plans to continue touring around the country for the next few months before touring in Europe.

“There’s really no end in sight,” Jorgensen says.

Jorgensen says the New Jersey quartet has been together for about two years.

Before the band’s formation, Jorgensen says, he went into a period of isolation.

“I basically stopped being friends with my friends and just stayed in my room and wrote,” he says.

A couple of people got a hold of what he was working on and read the songs, which led to an unavoidable conclusion.

“So I had to get a band together,” he says.

“We all knew each other from playing with other bands in New Jersey.”

In addition to the songs, the inspiration for the band’s name came from these late-night writing sessions.

“I did a lot of writing at 5 a.m. when I couldn’t sleep, to help with my insomnia,” he says. “It just sort of came from somewhere in there.”

In its short time together, Armor for Sleep has opened for bands such as Something Corporate, Taking Back Sunday and Fall Out Boy. Jorgensen says that the amount of thought the band puts into its work is what sets it apart from other bands.

“We give a lot of thought to what we do and say,” he says.

“We give a lot of thought to the different levels of meaning in our songs, and we take responsibility for what we say and how people view us.”

Although the show will be Armor for Sleep’s first stop in Ames, Jorgensen says it has played in Iowa before.

“It’s pretty much the middle ground,” he says.

“Whether we’re going out to the West Coast or coming home, you have to stop in Iowa.”

Who: Armor for Sleep, Recover, Say Anything, Chase Pagan

Where: M-Shop

When: 7:30 p.m. Sunday

Cost: $8 student, $10 public