“My Fate is in Your Hands” — London-based Darkwave Artist Affet Robot Brings His Trilogy of Singles to a Close With “Kafes”

Affet Robot, the London-based darkwave project of Turkish musician Eren Günsan, has concluded a trilogy of singles with “Kafes” (“Cage”), released after a two-year hiatus. Following “Kan ve Kül” and “Tuzak,” the track traces a narrative arc from ruin toward entrapment through darkwave sensibilities built for dancefloor consumption. “Kafes” layers FM synthesis, organ-toned bass, rapid percussion, and reverb-drenched guitar over Günsan’s distant, echo-laden Turkish vocals. Lyrically, the song explores themes of surrendered agency and cyclical despair, with imagery of a soul trapped in a rusted cage by sweet poison, unable to escape or find the key. A lyric video shot at London’s Nambucca uses saturated colored lighting and Caligari-style typography to visually reinforce the song’s claustrophobic atmosphere, transforming the performance space into a moving enclosure that mirrors the track’s thematic preoccupations with confinement and inescapable cycles.

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