★★★★★
Davey Havok is perhaps the last in what I consider to be a dying breed - the punk rock icon. Some may scoff at this notion, but for a certain demographic in their mid-to-late twenties, he was one of the few larger-than-life figures of our high school years. With all the respect in the world for the forefathers, most of the early punk rock heroes may as well have been ancient history to us kids at the turn of the century...
- www.punknews.org
2014-01-25
★★★★★
[Bryne Yancey is a contributing editor for Punknews.org.]
If you'll pardon the brief bout of navel gazing: Being a "rock critic" has never been weirder. Many in this "profession" in this day and age use their stature and access to elevate their own personal brand and little else ? I've certainly been guilty of that "essentiality" or "elitism" from time to time ? and as a result, it can make the consumption of the music itself something of an afterthought...
- www.punknews.org
2013-12-28
★★★★★
Far and away, the most embarrassing thing about me that I can think of (save that I've failed my driver's test twice) sits about four inches above my forearm: an AFI tattoo. As a kid with an older friend fresh out of tattoo school, the ink lines seem to defy any notion of "accuracy," so not only is it a sketchy, shitty-looking tattoo, but it also relates to a band, aesthetic, ideology, and sound that I find totally cringe-worthy...
- www.tinymixtapes.com
2013-11-21
★★★★★
It seems fitting that Burials was a late October release. This is the ninth album from California rock band AFI, and it's the band's first album in four years. AFI is known for their atmospheric intro songs, notably Decemberunderground's stirring "Prelude 12/21? and Sing the Sorrow's "Miseria Cantare - The Beginning." The first song, "The Sinking Night," sets a dark tone for Burials: Blackness drips down from both of my hands / The gold in my palm was mistaken for sand / Can you feel it...
- tangiblesounds.com
2013-11-12
★★★★★
"Blackness drips down from both of my hands?. The gold in my palm was mistaken for sand?. Can you feel it?" Dark, poetic imagery flows delicately from AFI frontman, Davey Havok, as the introductory verse of opening track 'The Sinking Night', sets the tone for AFI's ninth studio album, Burials. Dissonant and dramatic, Havok's hollow vocals are gradually fleshed out by both malevolence and melancholy as the power chorus chimes in...
- www.musicreview.co.za
2013-11-07
★★★★★
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AFI - BurialsAFI - BurialsRecord Label: Republic
Release Date: October 22, 2013
It's blasphemy, but Burials is the first full AFI album I've heard. I've been meaning to listen to them forever, but sometimes things just get in the way and things get pushed aside...
- www.absolutepunk.net
2013-11-05
★★★★★
Release Date: October 22, 2013 It's blasphemy, but Burials is the first full AFI album I've heard. I've been meaning to listen to them forever, but sometimes things just get in the way and things get pushed aside. Other than that, I know some fans swear by 2003's Sing the Sorrow and others revere the band's more punk sound like on The Art of Drowning, so where to start was a point of internal debate...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-11-04
★★★★★
Tweet Another Resurrection Cailfornia punk rock favorites AFI have seen many iterations in their nearly 25 years as a band, and with their ninth studio album, Burials, they have reached into the darkest depths of their bag of tricks, sounding more like an '80s goth band than their punk origins. It often happens that when a band has existed for this long and has gone through such a stark maturation as AFI, their later records lose the soul of their music that gained fans to begin with...
- www.mxdwn.com
2013-11-03
★★★★★
October 22, 2013
AFI enter their too-big-to-fail phase with the kind of glum alt-rock tailor-made for the end credits of action movies. "17 Crimes" and "Greater Than 84" survive with the band's flair for camp still intact. Others drown in pools of eyeliner. Flamboyant, serious, plagued by problems he never gets too specific about, Davey Havok invents a role part Morrissey, part Bret Michaels - hair-metal pinup for the Hot Topic era.
- www.rollingstone.com
2013-10-23
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