AFI " Crash Love"

                                                                                                　

The album starts with a trio of great songs in "Torch Song," an epic kick off a slow beat nice guitar work, and gang vocals waiting for the torch to be relayed to the next song where "Beautiful Thieves" run amok. "If we run this light/Take a little life/No one will care at all/Oh! /We can burn it and leave/For we are the beautiful thieves/No one suspects at all" which ends on a slow short groove. Love the intro in this song and the instrumentals throughout; great guitar, bass, and drums and a radio playing suicide. The vocal delivery is great as well. Hand claps and a funky "Given Up" style riff with a catchy hook and chorus. They also stay true to their word as there is a gang yell of “Hey,” but no unforgiving/ bloodcurdling screaming of their "heyday." Punk beat with an extremely poppy melody and great solo in "Veronica Sawyer Smokes" but "Dying since I had misread your blue heart/Black eyes, feigning falling, words I won't forget/I died right when I saw you while you shared that cigarette." "Okay, I Feel Better Now" with its great guitar and driving beat in the background, with a nice solo and some group vocals. Shall we "Medicate" this waning interest with the first single of this record with a catchy record, and a whisper filled breakdown similar to the first single of  "December-underground" sans screaming .If that does not work, how about we "Flash, Flash, Car Crash/We're no fixtures. Quick, now, Quick take our picture" part of the catchy chorus that says "I Am Trying Very Hard To Be Here." A quick paced song is what’s in "Sacrilege," as well as resentment with an on the cuff angst delivery in the vocals department and short solo. "I see you're scared well/I feel fine/Oh please believe I'm doing just fine/For what's deceased I shall never grieve/Just let your faith die." and that is not hard to say it is directed toward organized religion, and explicitly against it. "Darling, I Want to Destroy You" are not words you would like to hear, and you can only hope they have "Cold Hands" which has this awesome poppy melody and instrumentals that encourage you to sing along. "It Was Mine" is a nice finish to the standard edition record, but the deluxe has four more tracks including the "Fainting Spells" caused by the change of singing and slower pace to a slightly quicker one with gang screams leading to a handclap splash toward the end and that screaming Havok used in the breakdown of "Miss Murder" to help finish this tune. The double step beat and shimmery guitar of "We've Got The Knife" make this a catchy B-side, and "Where We Used to Play" is another catchy one. SoIfIHadToChoose7SongsTheyWouldBe: Torch Song, Beautiful Thieves, End Transmission, Veronica Sawyer Smokes, I Am Trying Very Hard To Be Here, Cold Hands, It Was Mine.