Enjoy your meal! AFI represents the unquenchable flame of creativity. Accordingly, in Havok & Co. also no album as the previous listened to. With the previous "Sing The Sorrow" then an absolute highlight seemed achieved - in absolutely harmonious work which convinced on whole line and is for me the best previously released albums. After such a triumph, it is then logically hard to still be beaten or even deliver a work that is the increased demands. The question is whether AFI have done it with "December Underground". The answer is very clear: "Yes and no.". If we focus solely on sales and hype, so you have to make it very clear that AFI are at the peak of her career. Fans and other listeners delight in melodies that are beyond reproach and lift the album charts and cope in praises to the Olympus of the current music industry. Catchy choruses, vocal lines - all well for Drin sinking, crying. The class intro ("Prelude 12/21"), out tip no. 1 "Love Like Winter", the breaks in "Summer Shudder" or even the good single "Miss Murder" really fascinate. The boys have it still plan to find the most beautiful melodies and Havok's perfect voice intones flawlessly and fervently. This means that you can listen to the whole album again without being even once disappointed. 13 numbers - not a single dropout. That it only four stars are of me anyway, is ultimately the fact that this is no longer exclusively the music that I want to hear. Somewhere is missing the matching element of the Rocks, the indomitable will of the punk, the uncontrollability of the songs. With increasing listening time is a feeling urges to have bought a pop version of "Sing The Sorrow". One has the impression that harder songs ("Kill Caustic" for example) no longer really fit the band. The band may be more important than ever classified as pure Emo (whether through the sugary pop, the theatricality, the appearance especially Havok) and somehow seems a bit too trendy to ground everything. "December Underground" is a great album, that deserves great reviews and sold rightly proud. But maybe missing here a little further, after having finally found its way into the ear canals of a large audience. The steady flame of creativity on economy mode - that's why only 4 stars, mfG: the Foff.
