J.D.’s Music Monday Picks
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Very excited to see “New Beast” on Hi54LoFi’s best of 2013 playlist!
this does a little sumpin to me.
Song Crush of the Week: “But a few leagues off the shore, i bit a flashing lure, and I assure it was not what I expected it to be.”
AFI bandmates Jeff Puget and Davey Havok’s have just released ‘Bright Black Heaven’ —the sophomore offering of their electronic brainchild Blaqk Audio.
Both artist’s penchant for electronica stems back from the hey-days of 1980. Picking up where their top charting 2007 release CexCells left off, Bright Black Heaven features a dozen well-wrought tracks.
“I feel that the album title perfectly captures the tone of the record,” Havok suggests. “The songs shift from high-energy dance anthems to mid-tempo pop to dramatic ballads that focus on transcendence and escape through the shadowy corners of bliss.”
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