Oh!

I like both songs. It'll be cool if the album turns out better than the last two.

I hate when bands release late career self titled albums.

White Offerings sounds like a harder Burials

Snow Cats is like a merge between Crash Love and Decemberunderground

Hell yes!! Loved this band ever since 03.

sweet, been listening to these guys since 9th grade lol. I'm hype

Really dug both songs. Stoked on this.

Fuck yesssss 2017 getting off to a strong start

I hate when bands release late career self titled albums. [2]

I know they still get love around here, but they could have easily hung 'em up after Sing the Sorrow. I've had no interest in anything they've done since then.

I don't care what bands call their albums.

Snow Cats is fantastic. Sounds like an evolution from Sing The Sorrow with a bit of Decemberunderground in there too. The chorus reminds me of the chorus on This Celluloid Dream and the backing vocals remind me of The Missing Frame. It's definitely my favorite single since Girl's Not Grey.

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Cannot fucking wait

Both songs feel a tad short to me. They sound like they could have been more developed. Still promising. I liked the previews but I didn't think the full songs would basically just be the equivalent of playing the previews 3 or 4 times.

The first minute and 15 seconds of White Offerings is great but then I feel like it doesn't lead into anything.
Most of the songs on this album are quite short so I really hope this isn't a problem for the rest of these songs.

Not bad

Finally.

Burials and Crash Love were great so I have pretty high expectations.

band hasnt been worth listening to since Sing the Sorrow

White offerings is another solid song for them. I wasn't too big on snow cats but maybe it'll grow on me. I think it's fair to say afi have played everything they're capable of at this point but that's not stopping me from hoping this is their best album since sts

"Both songs feel a tad short to me. They sound like they could have been more developed."

I agree with this, but only for "White Offerings". "Snow Cats" feels fine for the length. After that heavy bit in "White Offerings" I felt like the song doesn't go anywhere else. Unexplored potential. Still, I think it's a good return to form for the band.

I'm as excited for an AFI album as I've been since the weeks leading up to Decemberunderground.

They were pretty good. Pretty excited. Burials was pretty sweet

burials didn't do much for me. felt kind of try-hard and overbearing. crash love was actually better.

"I think it's fair to say afi have played everything they're capable of at this point but that's not stopping me from hoping this is their best album since sts"
Same

I still have no idea what form this album will take. The singles are so different from one another and AFI singles are never the strongest on the album (except for of course Girl's Not Grey on STS where every song is amazing)

Crash Love is such an underrated gem. So many great songs

Both crash love and decemberunderground were pretty dull imo. Crash love even more. I'll spin again before the album comes out tho

burials>december underground>crashlove

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Crash Love is definitely underrated. Especially when you consider all the deluxe edition songs which are some of the best material they've ever written.

This is one of those bands that has those annoying ''old'' fans that bitch about every single new thing they put out.

these are both amazing, very pleasantly surprised

Agreed on the bonus tracks on crash love, Fainting Spells is amazing

Snow Cats is pretty safe and ehhh but White Offerings is cool.

I've enjoyed every AFI album since TAOD, but these did nothing for me

Can't listen to them now (at work), but I'm pretty excited for a new album. Their last few haven't been great, but they always have a few killer tracks on each album.

If the bonus songs on Crash Love were considered an EP, it would definitely be a 5 for me. We've Got The Knife, Breathing Towers to Heaven, and especially 100 Words are some of their best songs. And Fainting Spells rules too

And after more and more listens I think these two songs are good ideas that weren't fleshed out enough. The intro section to White Offerings is fantastic but then it kinda just beats around the bush. The verse on Snow Cats just feels so rushed once it gets to the chorus and I think they could have done something more with it.
Still, Davey sounds good and these are instrumentally tight so I'm still very excited.

"If the bonus songs on Crash Love were considered an EP, it would definitely be a 5 for me"

Yeah I fucking love "Where We Used to Play"

Agreed on Crash Love bonus songs. "Where We Used To Play" is their best dog hands down.

This is one of those bands that has those annoying ''old'' fans that bitch about every single new thing they put out.
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White Offerings > Snow Cats

Yes!!!!!

'This is one of those bands that has those annoying ''old'' fans that bitch about every single new thing they put out.'

They had those fans when Sing the Sorrow came out. Now, I'm one of them. I mean, I don't really bitch about any of the new stuff so much as I listen to it once and it does nothing for me.

Apparently this is actually called "The Blood Album". They called it that themselves on facebook. But it's listed as "AFI" on iTunes. I don't know if that's just an unofficial subtitle to avoid confusion or if it's literally called "AFI (The Blood Album)". But now it's definitely confusing.

Also, "old fans" that still complain about wanting the old AFI back... it's been 16 years (or more depending on what you consider "old AFI"). If you're still commenting on everything AFI related about how great they used to be, I think it's time you find a new hobby.

I don't know where it came from, but previews of the entire album leaked. I may have skimmed it... if you think "they've played everything they're capable of...", wait until you hear "Still a Stranger". They're doing a LOT of new stuff on this album. Sing The Sorrow combined with Crash Love is the closest I can describe it.

Where can I find those previews?

Also, I think they subtitled the album because there's a greatest hits album or something they released called "AFI", so they subtitled it "The Blood Album" to avoid confusion.

I'm not sure if I'm allowed to share links or information about leaks on here. But there's a far away "kingdom" of leaks out there.

I guess the album is officially self-titled but the band themselves have taken to calling it "The Blood Album" according to AFI News HQ.

class. always liked these guys

Well the greatest hits wasn't actually approved by AFI, it was made by their old Nitro label who wanted to cash in on AFI's mid 2000 popularity but the band never wanted it realeased but couldn't block it

December was great.

Just a heard a preview for Still A Stranger and I thought it was the perfect bland of STS and Crash Love. Plus, these two songs are growing on me. This is gonna be a good one

Break up. Or return to Sing the Sorrow times (or earlier.) But mostly break up.

I like what Davey and crew did with Crash Love and Burials. This should be on point.

I like White Offerings better than Snow cats. It had a bit more energy to it. I'm expecting this album to be pretty good. As is the norm for these guys.

"Break up. Or return to Sing the Sorrow times (or earlier.) But mostly break up."

Oh, shut up.

Oh, shut up. [2]

The title Dumb Kids makes me think that the song will have lyrics in the same vein as Pop Kids, by which I mean whining about social media and brand obsessed teens. I hope that I'm wrong though.

after listening a bunch more times, really digging these tracks, definitely picking this up

self-titled though, really?

Nope, it's not self-titled. They were just kidding.

No they weren't. http://afinewshq.com/2016/10/31/davey-confirms-album-self-titled/

I know. I was being sarcastic.

Apparently the full album name is AFI (The Blood Album)

Uhm yeah, it's been showing like that on the band page here for quite a while.

so it's not just self-titled... it has a subtitle

It's officially self-titled. The press release and iTunes list it as such and Davey confirmed it is self-titled himself. Unofficially, the band is calling it The Blood Album.

The self-titled record thing is so lame... Always makes me suspect the band of either lack of creativity or attempting to make a comeback. In AFI's case, mostly the first idea, since I don't think that they're trying to reinvent their sound or whatever (and even then they gave the sound a name to with it, e.g. Decemberunderground). Also, Snow Cats sounds like typical AFI song (it's good tho).

I never knew so many people put so much weight in the title of an album.

Seems a bit irrelevant to an art form that's entirely aural.

I guess you have to complain about something, huh?

^ Agreed. People are making a huge deal out of this. I don't really get it. I know there's some symbolism to self-titling an album according to the music world, but I doubt AFI is making a statement by doing this. It likely means nothing.

LightChaotic - chill... If the album's good, I will love it anyway. It's not a tragedy, but it does seem weird and lazy that the band decided to release a self-titled record.
I guess album covers are irrelevant in your opinion too?
While they don't affect the quality of the music, they add something to the overall aesthetic experience. Same with record titles.

I'm pretty chill.

And yeah, album covers are just as irrelevant as the title. Just seems like a vapid complaint to me. Not saying a cool title or nice cover art can't be discussed. Just pointing out how trivial I find the complaints about the album title in this thread to be.

And to your point, I think simply calling it "AFI" says quite a bit about the record and is certainly not inherently lazy.

The only cool thing about the record being self-titled is that they're sort of screwing over their former label for releasing the self-titled compilation without the band's agreement.