AFRAID was formed in Portland, ME, in the spring of 2011. Theirs is a music that defies easy categorization, centered on hypnotic bass and layered, ghostly vocals, played at dirge-like tempos and cloaked in droning loops. With equal footing in sleazy 20th century gutter rock and contemporary pitch-black experimental transgression, they write music at once paranoid and trance-inducing, beautiful and violent.

Read more about Afraid on Last.fm.


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