A.F.I

Art Of Drowning

Grows on you

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The Art of Drowning seems to be the most frequently hailed AFI album, and with good reason. However, you may not realize this for quite some time. Black Sails in the Sunset was always my favorite, followed by Shut Your Mouth, Sing the Sorrow, the Art of Drowning and then the other two. However, The Art of Drowning has climbed up my list to be tied with Black Sails as my favorite AFI album. For maybe the first 5 or even 10 listens, the songs will seem good, with a few great ones, but you might feel like the album is mediocre (by AFI standards). It's songs like The Nephilim, Smile, A Story at Three, Morningstar, The Despair Factor and Sacrifice Theory that, given the necessary time to sink in, will become some of your more enjoyable AFI songs.

Quality of songs aside, Art of Drowning also contains the most dynamic set of material, ranging from slow ballads (Morningstar, Ever and a Day) to more traditional hardcore (Catch a Hot One, Battled) and just about everything in-between. This could be part of the reason why fans aren't always immediately taken aback by it. While most of the other albums have a more tangible, "obvious" motif, whether it be the blistering goth-punk of Black Sails, or the churning hardcore of Shut Your Mouth, The Art of Drowning is a lost soul (pardon the pun) in the AFI realm. It marks the "true" departure from hardcore, into more experimentation. Sure, both Black Sails and Shut Your Mouth showed signs of AFI molting their "East-Bay Hardcore" sound, both of them were still relying on the band's roots for security. Here, AFI let go, and allowed themselves to create something very unique.

Though this isn't their best, (in my opinion) it's pretty damned close, and deserves most of the recognition that it receives. Many fans consider the time of this album's release to be AFI's finest hour.

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