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Track List
01) Torch Song
02) Beautiful Thieves
03) End Transmission
04) Too Shy to Scream
05) Veronica Sawyer Smokes
06) Okay, I Feel Better Now
07) Medicate
08) I Am Trying Very Hard to Be Here
09) Sacrilege
10) Darling, I Want to Destroy You
11) Cold Hands
12) It Was Mine
Cd 2
01) Fainting Spells (decemberunderground Sessions 2006
02) We've Got the Knife (Crash Love Sessions demo)
03) Where We Used to Play (Crash Love Sessions demo)
04) 100 Words (Sing the Sorrow Sessions 2003)
01) Torch Song
02) Beautiful Thieves
03) End Transmission
04) Too Shy to Scream
05) Veronica Sawyer Smokes
06) Okay, I Feel Better Now
07) Medicate
08) I Am Trying Very Hard to Be Here
09) Sacrilege
10) Darling, I Want to Destroy You
11) Cold Hands
12) It Was Mine
Cd 2
01) Fainting Spells (decemberunderground Sessions 2006
02) We've Got the Knife (Crash Love Sessions demo)
03) Where We Used to Play (Crash Love Sessions demo)
04) 100 Words (Sing the Sorrow Sessions 2003)
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First Released
2009
Punk Rock
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Crash Love is the eighth studio album by the rock band AFI. Produced by Joe McGrath and Jacknife Lee, it was released on September 29, 2009 through Interscope Records.
User Album Review
It’s mandatory for a band to openly state during pre-release promotional interviews that this album is the biggest, boldest, bestest thing they’ve done in their career. They have given everything to this. When AFI say it, it’s always that bit more believable.
While idle comparisons to other punks-turned-alt-rockers Green Day will surely abound once again, it’s important to note that these Californian four-piece have always focussed heavily on the alternative side of their sound. Overblown drama and sorrow-laden theatre has always been massive parts of what they do and why they do it, and overblown and sorrow-laden is exactly what Crash Love is.
With 2006’s Decemberunderground, AFI (aka A Fire Inside) reached the height of their powers as their seventh album hit the top spot in America and entered the Top 20 in the UK. And where does a band go from there? Well, the quartet has opted to sand their more abrasive corners down for a gentler, more melodic approach. With characteristically cascading guitars and deep moans from Davey Havok, it’s still unmistakeably AFI, but it’s just different enough.
The comfort of familiarity has gone from Crash Love. Whereas both band and fans usually enjoy that comfort in equal measure, the quartet now leans toward a sound much closer to The Cure and The Smiths than ever before, and while this is still within their fans’ remit, it might take a little bit of getting used to. The rewards, however, are there for the taking.
Veronica Sawyer Smokes is a song plucked from the Mancunian hit parade of the 1980s and OK, I Feel Better Now should be accompanied by a wig similar to one of Robert Smith’s more extravagant hair days – just to help exude the mood. Saying that, the production on both of these songs – however much they might ape their influences – is magnificent. If there ever was a time to describe an album as expansive, it is now.
The lolloping thumps of Medicate hark back to pastimes in the AFI catalogue, but there’s no need to dwell on them because the band has moved onto yet another chapter of their fantastic career. Take some time to appreciate this.
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Crash Love is the eighth studio album by the rock band AFI. Produced by Joe McGrath and Jacknife Lee, it was released on September 29, 2009 through Interscope Records.
User Album Review
It’s mandatory for a band to openly state during pre-release promotional interviews that this album is the biggest, boldest, bestest thing they’ve done in their career. They have given everything to this. When AFI say it, it’s always that bit more believable.
While idle comparisons to other punks-turned-alt-rockers Green Day will surely abound once again, it’s important to note that these Californian four-piece have always focussed heavily on the alternative side of their sound. Overblown drama and sorrow-laden theatre has always been massive parts of what they do and why they do it, and overblown and sorrow-laden is exactly what Crash Love is.
With 2006’s Decemberunderground, AFI (aka A Fire Inside) reached the height of their powers as their seventh album hit the top spot in America and entered the Top 20 in the UK. And where does a band go from there? Well, the quartet has opted to sand their more abrasive corners down for a gentler, more melodic approach. With characteristically cascading guitars and deep moans from Davey Havok, it’s still unmistakeably AFI, but it’s just different enough.
The comfort of familiarity has gone from Crash Love. Whereas both band and fans usually enjoy that comfort in equal measure, the quartet now leans toward a sound much closer to The Cure and The Smiths than ever before, and while this is still within their fans’ remit, it might take a little bit of getting used to. The rewards, however, are there for the taking.
Veronica Sawyer Smokes is a song plucked from the Mancunian hit parade of the 1980s and OK, I Feel Better Now should be accompanied by a wig similar to one of Robert Smith’s more extravagant hair days – just to help exude the mood. Saying that, the production on both of these songs – however much they might ape their influences – is magnificent. If there ever was a time to describe an album as expansive, it is now.
The lolloping thumps of Medicate hark back to pastimes in the AFI catalogue, but there’s no need to dwell on them because the band has moved onto yet another chapter of their fantastic career. Take some time to appreciate this.
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