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AFI - Sing the Sorrow (45rpm, 2xLP Vinyl)
Co-produced by Jerry Finn (Rancid, Green Day, Jawbreaker) and Butch Vig (Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins), Sing the Sorrow retains the Bay Area outfit's signature aggression and pathos – forging ever forward into uncharted territory like the virtuoso guitar intro of "The Leaving Song Pt. 2" or the industrial-leaning break and Dead Can Dance-worthy outro of "Death of Seasons."
Meanwhile, from its sublime intro through beautifully subdued verses and infectious choruses, first single "Girl's Not Grey" is a standout that both recalls AFI coming into its own on 2000's The Art of Drowning and hints at a myriad of future directions. For the purists, "Dancing Through Sunday" and "Bleed Black" come strapped with generous chant-along opportunities and heavy-as-hell, bolt-tight riffs and rhythms. And as with virtually every track on Sing the Sorrow, these are all imbued with alternately brooding and celebratory lyrical imagery of rebirth, resurrection, apocalypse, all somehow deeply personal – in other words, classic AFI.
"When you're playing a style of music that doesn't really fit anywhere, you run a risk. You're challenging people to leave their niche, to leave their predetermined ideas of what they're supposed to like. Luckily, we have a lot of people who just focus on the music and appreciate us for what we are. So we get fans from all different genres of music, the jocks, the spooky kids, skaters, college kids, punk rockers, hardcore kids, metal kids, all that." -Davey Havok
Title: Sing the Sorrow
Artist: AFI
Label: Interscope
UPC: 602465982664
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 9/27/2024
Track List:
Side A:
Miseria Cantare - The Beginning
The Leaving Song Pt. II
Bleed Black
Silver and Cold
Side B:
Dancing Through Sunday
Girl's Not Grey
Death of Seasons
The Great Disappointment
Side C:
Paper Airplanes (Makeshift Wings)
This Celluloid Dream
The Leaving Song
Side D:
...but home is nowhere
This Time Imperfect
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