“Everything ends. And my endings tend to be eternal”: Inside the heart of Davey Havok and AFI’s new chapter
As AFI unveil their new album Bodies, Davey Havok reveals the warring dualities – the dark and the light, the old and the new, the painful endings and the hopeful beginnings – at the heart of their forthcoming release, and what it tells us about himself…
Words: Nick Ruskell
Photos: Jonathan Weiner
Los Angeles is a wild place. It’s everything you want it to be and more, as well as plenty you don’t. When you see it on TV, there’s an element of reality there that can suck you in without ever having been there. Davey Havok remembers it from watching metal videos on MTV, years before discovering for himself that they basically really did yell ‘Welcome to the jungle!’ at you as you got off the bus, wide eyed at what you’ve just stepped into. It’s a city that’s a mess of contradictions that somehow works in a vague sort of harmony; glitz and wealth
AFI Confirm New Album Bodies , Post Two New Tracks Thursday, 25 February 2021
AFI have confirmed a new album is on the way.
The follow-up to 2017 s AFI (The Blood Album) and their 2018 EP The Missing Man is called Bodies and will be released on June 11 through Rise Records. It was produced by the band s guitarist Jade Puget and mixed by Tony Hoffer.
It will include the previously shared songs Twisted Tongues and Escape From Los Angeles, as well as the newly shared tracks Looking Tragic and Begging For Trouble. Discussing the former, frontman Davey Havok said: Looking Tragic addresses the theme of overstimulation resulting in desensitization. Melodic and driving, the song came to life quickly and immediately stood out as a track to make bodies, if not sentiments, move.
AFI Unveil Two New Tracks Twisted Tongues And Escape From Los Angeles Friday, 15 January 2021
AFI have returned with two new tracks.
Twisted Tongues and Escape From Los Angeles mark the band s first new music since their 2018 EP The Missing Man , while their last LP was 2017 s AFI (The Blood Album) .
Both tracks were produced by guitarist Jade Puget and will feature on a limited 7 release that you can get details of here. The former deals in the band s trademark dramatic and vital rock with an expansive soundscape that finds minor scale melodies weaving above dynamic drums. The latter, meanwhile, finds the quartet playing with more uplifting melodies as they lean into their punk-rock roots.
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Either way, to many who loved the place once regaled by The Beach Boys, the state now
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RedState’s Scott Hounsell delivered the news:
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