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Description: Bodies by AFI [CD] Track Listing: 1 Twisted Tongues2 Far Too Near3 Dulceria4 On Your Back5 Escape From Los Angeles6 Begging For Trouble7 Back From The Flesh8 Looking Tragic9 Death of the Party10 No Eyes11 Tied To A Tree2021 release. California-based rock band AFI are back with their eleventh album, BODIES. The long standing quartet - comprised of singer Davey Havok, guitarist-keyboardist Jade Puget, bassist Hunter Burgan and drummer Adam Carson - known for their unshakeable connection with their audience is a testament to the band's knack for reinvention, renewal, and exploration, anchored by an unblemished authenticity. A place in rock n' roll history assured by magical musical androgyny, both post-modern and timeless, AFI remains guided by the flames of determination that defined their first ten albums and are sure to drive the next ten and beyond. --- Unlike its expansive predecessor The Blood Album, AFI's 11th effort, Bodies, is a lean set that wastes no time jolting listeners with nearly a dozen urgent tracks that extend the band's late-era maturation as a synth-washed, but punk-rooted, rock outfit. Solid and serviceable, Bodies brims with energy, from the tense "Twisted Tongues" -- packed with Jade Puget's speedy riffs, Adam Carson's popping percussion, and a soaring chorus of yearning voices -- to the skittering '80s callback "Death of the Party," a wild synth bop that sounds like a Blaqk Audio outtake set to guitars. Frontman Davey Havoc remains the unmistakable center of attention, his poetic lyrics and passionate delivery injecting a much-needed vulnerability that challenges the overt masculine energy of the genre, whether on the sparse, Depeche Mode-indebted "Back from the Flesh" or the potentially divisive highlight "Dulceria," an unexpected throbber co-penned with Billy Morgan. That dramatic emoting has been part of AFI's draw for a while, and they lean even deeper onto that formula with Bodies, balancing intensity and beauty on the buzzing new wave "Escape from Los Angeles," the luscious swagger of "Looking Tragic" (featuring one of Hunter Burgan's many standout basslines), and the sparkling pogo-bouncer "On Your Back." As AFI continues to push their sound into increasingly experimental territory, the stunning album closer "Tied to a Tree" adds another surprising entry to their catalog. The towering epic merges Depeche Mode and Nine Inch Nails in truly cinematic fashion, allowing space and atmosphere to take control as Havok's evocative, pained lyrics echo across the band's sonic landscape. Bodies is one of the stronger offerings from AFI's late era, stirring both the physical and emotional with urgency and heart. ~ Neil Z. Yeung, AllMusic Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE

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