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The Process and the Product

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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.)

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Material

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Hello out there! It’s been a while. There is so much lyrics meta still to be written, so many conspiracy facts to be documented and shared. There is a whole series to be written on the album Material, and what I think it is: an apology. The unthinkable. Proud, angry Davey, who in 2013 described mercy as something he was too weak to find. Who we thought would never yield–whose righteous anger eclipsed every happy ending. Two and a half years ago, Burials came out and I thought, these poisoned hearts will never change. Javey is suffering, Javey is pain.

And then Davey softened. Davey apologized. Davey went home.

Interviews lately have been about happiness, the pleasure and joy of working together over 20 long years. Then there’s the Anointed video, which is the first in my memory of a long string videos about murder girls wherein the Javeys end up together at the end, on the same side of things, instead of dead. There is not a great online resource for the Material lyrics yet, so we are working on getting those up, so you can read the rapturous, religious, ridiculously sensual words yourself, and begin to percolate on your own conclusions.

We, your intrepid and delinquent blog runners, saw Blaqk Audio perform last night at the Bluebird Theater in Denver. Continue reading →