One of the Best of the Decade.
Let me first headline by saying that I liked AFI from very early on and dug everything they put out until Sing the Sorrow, which was a bit too depressing for my likes. I left them alone until a friend of mine told me how good Crash Love was. The first listen was good enough to keep my attention, then each listen after that got better and better until it was the only thing I listened to for a few months straight. The album is just good, solid rock that anyone good enjoy. This should be taken as a full album and not just piece by piece, it has a very consistent feel throughout telling the whole story, though lyrically it might not be called a concept album. Crash Love has a western gunslinger hero type of feel.. It is nearly void of Davey's "woe is me" element, which I find so refreshing. This feels like a confident, well refined rock album that could be celebrated for decades as more and more listeners descover it, including AFI die hards who originally shrugged it off.
