This is an old interview, from when the boys were about to release Bright Black Heaven, but I hadn’t read it before and I thought you might enjoy it! The pictures are dorky and amazing and the highlight is when Jade says, “We’ll probably end up releasing it ourselves from our bedroom.” Bonus: this tear-my-heart-out-wedding-picture/BBH promo photo.
AFI and Blaqk Audio have a very different writing process. How does that impact the finished product, the album that comes out of it? How do the differing creative processes influence the notable contrast in the feel and the sound, resulting in either the emotional, overwrought, performative poetry of AFI or the direct, confessional, unabashed Blaqk Audio? (To say nothing of the deliberate rawness of XTRMST, which I cannot speak to at the moment, but you can read a good Jade interview here and a good Davey interview here; listen to tracks here. The XTRMST album was written mostly during Burials, but recorded much differently, with each track’s vocal being the first recording.)
Tonight, In the Whispers 