Düşünmeden durmak hiç kolay değil
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London’s Affet Robot steps back into view with Tuzak, a song that moves like a thought you cannot set down. It arrives alert, lean, attentive to pressure. The lines are held taut; the pacing keeps a steady gait, never hurrying, never slack. What you hear feels earned, lived-in, alert to consequence.
Sung entirely in Turkish, the track carries an added veil of mystery. Meaning travels through its cadence and tone before any translation ever arrives. “Tuzak” translates to “Trap,” a title that frames the song’s inward pull with plain clarity. Eren Gunsan delivers the vocal as if speaking from inside a room with the lights low and the windows ajar: plainspoken, disciplined, almost severe. That restraint gives the words weight as they circle unease: a mind denied rest, old sounds returning uninvited, a horizon offering little comfort. Faces appear, mercy is asked for, mistakes repeat…the season turns cold. By the end, the trap has closed with quiet finality.
The arrangement works by accumulation. Bass lays down a firm spine; guitars arrive softened and widened by reverb and chorus, less gesture than atmosphere. Everything proceeds in step, as though each element has agreed to a shared pace. The lineage is audible: echoes of Depeche Mode, Clan of Xymox, and Japan, filtered through a contemporary sense of control.
The video for Tuzak, recorded in South London, bears the mark of a city lived in rather than admired. The camcorder video, jittery with zooms and sudden shifts, feels rushed and secretive, as if filmed while being followed. Streets pass quickly; trains zip by; nothing settles. Tuzak reads as a concise statement after absence: error acknowledged, endurance tested, the door already closed.
Watch the video for Tuzak below:
Affet Robot is the musical project of Eren Günsan, a producer and multi-instrumentalist originally from Turkey and now based in London. Since its formation, Affet Robot has carved a space in the international darkwave and synth scene with its fusion of cold electronics, melancholic melodies, and Turkish lyricism. The project draws on the legacy of 1980s synthpop and post-punk while carrying the emotional and cultural depth of Erdem’s roots. Each release feels like a transmission from two worlds colliding—the mechanized pulse of the West and the aching soul of the East.
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