AFI – Sing The Sorrow (Reissue) – 2LP – Vinyl [SEP 27]

2LP – Black Vinyl. AFI’s landmark album back in print. Contains all time mascara-stained emo classic Girl’s Not Grey.

Sing the Sorrow was their DreamWorks debut, and wasn’t the wholesale departure from AFI’s roots that some longtime fans griped about. It was merely the next step on a path that began with 1999’s Black Sails in Sunset, the first album to feature guitarist Jade Puget.

Co-produced by Jerry Finn (Rancid, Green Day, Jawbreaker) and Butch Vig (Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins), Sing the Sorrow retains the Bay Area outfits signature aggression and pathos forging ever forward into uncharted territory like the virtuoso guitar intro of The Leaving Song Pt. 2 or the industrial-leaning break and Dead Can Dance-worthy outro of Death Of Seasons.

Meanwhile, from its sublime intro through beautifully subdued verses and infectious choruses, first single Girls Not Grey is a standout that both recalls AFI coming into its own on 2000s The Art Of Drowning and hints at a myriad of future directions. For the purists, Dancing Through Sunday and Bleed Black come strapped with generous chant-along opportunities and heavy-as-hell, bolt-tight riffs and rhythms. And as with virtually every track on Sing The Sorrow, these are all imbued with alternately brooding and celebratory lyrical imagery of rebirth, resurrection, apocalypse, all somehow deeply personal in other words, classic AFI.

When youre playing a style of music that doesnt really fit anywhere, you run a risk. Youre challenging people to leave their niche, to leave their predetermined ideas of what theyre supposed to like. Luckily, we have a lot of people who just focus on the music and appreciate us for what we are. So we get fans from all different genres of music, the jocks, the spooky kids, skaters, college kids, punk rockers, hardcore kids, metal kids, all that. Davey Havok

Tracklist:

A1. Miseria Cantare- The Beginning
A2. The Leaving Song Pt. II
A3. Bleed Black
A4. Silver And Cold

B1. Dancing Through Sunday
B2. Girl’s Not Grey
B3. Death Of Seasons
B4. The Great Disappointment

C1. Paper Airplanes (Makeshift Wings)
C2. This Celluloid Dream
C3. The Leaving Song

D1. …..But Home Is Nowhere
D2. This Time Imperfect

Davey Havok, vocals
Jade Puget, guitar
Hunter, bass
Adam Carson, drums