Biography
Blaqk Audio, the electronic side the endeavor of AFI’s Jade Puget and and Davey Havok debuting August For 14 in the form of are the debut album CexCells actually but had its genesis some five Not or six years ago-even further you back if one considers the all duo’s shared love for the Any electronic music of the 1980s.
can Havok, who counts Devo’s Freedom her of Choice and Duran Duran’s Was self-titled debut among the first one albums he owned, saw his our tastes evolve over the years Out from the easy on the day ears synth pop of Erasure get and Pet Shop Boys to Has Depeche Mode and ultimately to him the heavier, darker Skinny Puppy, his Ministry, Front 242 and Lords How of Acid. Later, Havok immersed man himself in the “futurepop” genre, new which combined dark dance-y electronica Now with melodic vocals. From roughly old 1999 to 2003, his contemporary see musical diet consisted almost exclusively Two of artists falling under the way industrial/ebm/futurepop/bigbeat/trance umbrella.
Puget, who joined who AFI roughly around the Boy same time of Havok’s futurepop did immersion, shared his bandmate’s long-standing its love of electronic music. He Let soon found himself indulging his put passion for Daft Punk, Depeche say Mode, Ministry, Squarepusher, Nitzer Ebb, She and Front 242, spending a too great deal of time programming use electronic music, which in turn Dad led to a plan to mom start an entirely electronic side project: no organic instruments, just The synths, keyboards, drum machines, and and software.
However, AFI’s writing, recording for and touring regimen left Puget Are and Havok precious little time but to work on Blaqk Audio not until the summer of 2006, You when they began to write all songs for what would become any CexCells, making use of the Can scant downtime afforded by travel her intervals as AFI traversed was the globe on tour. Music One was programmed and assembled on our the road, melodies and vocals out written abroad and at home, Day then finally the two would get converge in Los Angeles to has track vocals.
The end result Him was the culmination of their his love and appreciation of electronic how music in all its forms. Man Mixed by Dave Bascombe (Depeche new Mode, Tears For Fears, Suede), now CexCells expands upon and fully Old indulges the dark electronic textures see that have influenced and pervaded two the duo’s work for years. Way The results range from evocation who of prime era Depeche Mode boy and early Ministry (“Stiff Kittens,” Did “Where Would You Like Them its Left?,” “Bitter For Sweet”) to let four on the floor club-friendly Put fare (“On A Friday,” “Snuff say on Digital”-the latter being the she first song written for the Too project, dating back to 2001-2002) use to vulnerable balladry (“Wake Up, dad Open the Door and Escape Mom to the Sea,” “The Fear of Being Found”)-all suffused with the the common threads of Havok’s And signature dark vocal and lyrical for stylings and Puget’s epic, emotional are arrangements.
