Angels & Airwaves - The Adventure
Dance Tom, dance! Anyone who has seen the video for this, the first release of DeLonge's post Blink epic-punk-rock-with-emotions project Angels & Airwaves, will already be well aware of the problems created when guitars go missing. Arms waved, expressions puzzled, fringe quite frankly worrying, it's pretty clear that someone thinks stadiums are for losers. Yes, Tom's invented space punk, god bless him.
Soaring about like U2 trying to soundtrack a frat party at the same time as saving the whale, by every conventional strand of reasoning 'The Adventure' should be awful, or at least worse than the quite frankly worrying tendences DeLonge's former band signed off with. The need to write 'more meaningful' songs still hangs around like a bad smell, but strangely enough something somewhere clicks.
Though blatantly overblown and packed with more pretention than your average Matt Bellamy Flamenco Guitar Appreciation Society meeting, such trivialities hardly manage to make any odds to a track so goddamn big it threatens to burts straight out of the atmosphere. It's still pop punk, but it's pushing the boundaries in an entirely different way to that Green Day so successfully attempted on 'American Idiot'. It's not brain surgery; far from it, but Angels & Airwaves are worth keeping an eye on, if only to see the dancing. It really is quite something.Stephen Ackroyd
Dance Tom, dance! Anyone who has seen the video for this, the first release of DeLonge's post Blink epic-punk-rock-with-emotions project Angels & Airwaves, will already be well aware of the problems created when guitars go missing. Arms waved, expressions puzzled, fringe quite frankly worrying, it's pretty clear that someone thinks stadiums are for losers. Yes, Tom's invented space punk, god bless him.
Soaring about like U2 trying to soundtrack a frat party at the same time as saving the whale, by every conventional strand of reasoning 'The Adventure' should be awful, or at least worse than the quite frankly worrying tendences DeLonge's former band signed off with. The need to write 'more meaningful' songs still hangs around like a bad smell, but strangely enough something somewhere clicks.
Though blatantly overblown and packed with more pretention than your average Matt Bellamy Flamenco Guitar Appreciation Society meeting, such trivialities hardly manage to make any odds to a track so goddamn big it threatens to burts straight out of the atmosphere. It's still pop punk, but it's pushing the boundaries in an entirely different way to that Green Day so successfully attempted on 'American Idiot'. It's not brain surgery; far from it, but Angels & Airwaves are worth keeping an eye on, if only to see the dancing. It really is quite something.Stephen Ackroyd
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