Neighborhoods is the sixth studio album by the American pop punk band blink-182 , released September 27, 2011 through DGC Records and Interscope Records. Their first album of new material in eight years, its recording followed the band's 2009 reunion after a four-year hiatus. Due to conflicts within the trio, the band entered an "indefinite hiatus" in 2005 and the members explored various side-projects. After two separate tragedies regarding the band and their entourage, the members of the band decided to reunite in late 2008, with plans for a new album and tour. It is the first Blink-182 album produced Read more on Last.fm.
I bought this album a week ago. I held off on a review until I could figure out how to dissect it for Music Grid.
Here’s why it gets 5 stars:
Three dudes break up their band. Each guy goes off and does something else, something very different…(excluding Mark Hoppus…+44 was damn close to a Blink album). They regroup and attempt to weld each other’s new styles together. It winds up taking 2 years.
I buy it and I listen to it for a week. I decide its a very personal record, an album built like a Frankenstein monster. It’s a different kind of record all the way around. I like it.
Here’s where my review may piss you off:
If you despise Tom Delonges Angels And Airwaves, you’re going to hear that influence. If you didn’t like Blinks last album….you’re going to hear that influence. If you don’t like Travis Barkers more hip-hop oriented drumming, you’re going to hear that influence.
It doesn’t sound like old Blink. It sounds like late thirties Blink with a U2 fetish.
But, in my opinion….it works really well. The songs are all gigantic riffs and the lyrics are typical Tom Delonge diary confessionals and Mark Hoppus haiku.
There you go…..