Unlimited Music

It may seem unusual that I am a fan of AFI but the truth is that I don’t restrict my songlist based on genres and stereotypes of what certain people should listen to. If I enjoy it, I’ll listen to it. Thats why I posted reviews to different bands such as Jimmy Eat World and Linkin Park. To get back to the subject of the band, however, Blaqk Audio is a new group headed by the lead singer and guitarist from AFI. The band fills out the rest of their sound by using electronic music.

I, myself, am a huge fan of the electronic genre. Naturally, this CD interested me very much. After all, AFI was good on their own right, but a side project that involves electronic music from their two best components sounded almost too good to be true.

The good news is that it wasn’t. The CD delivers classic AFI sound, as one would expect with Davey Havok still doing the crooning. Havok is great singing high pitches and emotional, and sometimes weird, lyrics. That doesn’t change here.

The electronic vehicle ties in pretty well with Havok and fellow, and only other, bandmate Jade Puget. My only complaint of the sound would be that it sounds almost a little too much like AFI. In fact, when I first heard their single, “Stiff Kittens,” off this CD, which is named CexCells, I thought it was something new by the original band. Generally, in my opinion, side project bands should be able to totally differentiate themselves from their predecessors. Can AFI and Blaqk Audio coexist for long like this? I doubt it.

Overall this is a good debut release. Havok has been here before and done this with AFI.

Grade - B/B+ - Pretty good but AFI fans will probably prefer their old stuff and non-AFI fans will see nothing different to pull them in.

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