AFI are back with a double dose of new music today. The band has just released their driving new rock track Looking Tragic along with the faster-paced cut Begging for Trouble, and they ve now announced the details for their forthcoming album
Bodies. Looking Tragic addresses the theme of overstimulation resulting in desensitization, says frontman Davey Havok. Melodic and driving, the song came to life quickly and immediately stood out as a track to make bodies, if not sentiments, move. Check out the video and lyrics below.
Meanwhile drummer Adam Carson chimed in on the other new offering, Begging for Trouble. After years of receiving early versions of songs from Jade and Davey, in forms that span loosely arranged chords and scratch vocal to fully realized demos, I think I have become quite adept at knowing which songs will or will not make the record, stated Carson. Begging For Trouble was green lit, at least in my mind, the moment I heard the vocals come in. To m
It s been three years since the group released
The Missing Man, a five-song 2018 EP, and this next full length will be their first since
AFI (The Blood Album) came out in 2017. As is expected given AFI s rich history of evolution, there s a diametric approach on the new tracks Twisted Tongues is marked by a dark, gothic atmosphere while Escape From Los Angeles is more pop-driven despite the somewhat despondent lyrical aim.
“As I recall, ‘Twisted Tongues’ came of the
Blood era and was the first piece of music we explored on the new album, said frontman Davey Havok (via Consequence of Sound). The dreaminess of the music lyrically inspired themes of unforeseen severance. It is a pining song of being set adrift by those who once feigned to share the same anchors.