AFI Unveil Two New Tracks Twisted Tongues And Escape From Los Angeles
Friday, 15 January 2021
Written by Laura Johnson
Photo: Jacob Boll
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.
Vocalist Davey Havok said:
“As I recall, 'Twisted Tongues' came of the Blood era and was the first piece of music we explored on the new album. The dreaminess of the music lyrically inspired themes of unforseen severance. It is a pining song of being set adrift by those who once feigned to share the same anchors.”
“Los Angeles, like most of my loves, is imbued with a darkness and radiance. Musically, 'Escape from Los Angeles' called for my own vantage to this classic theme of the city's dichotomous allure."
AFI are currently working on a new album, details of which are due to be announced soon. Puget offered an update:
"Anyone who knows our catalog knows that no two records really sit togethe. Some sit a little closer, maybe. We do certain things, just by virtue of who we are, that are consistent, but those things come about organically. Every time we do something, I have to judge it on its own merits. Some fans are going to judge a new album, or a new song, based on what's come before. But as artists, we can't do that, because it would only hinder our creativity."
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