Angels And Airwaves is Tom DeLonge’s new band (Tom used to play guitar and sing in Blink 182), and “We Don’t Need To Whisper” is their debut album. Tom hyped this album a lot before it came out, like it was going to include some of the greatest songs written in decades (or something like that).Well, it doesn’t. It’s just a pretty good record.
I like the overall mood/feel of this album but the songs sound too much like each other, and it feels like you’re listening to the same song over and over. Even though that might have been what Tom (he wrote all the songs and produced this album) intended, it’s not really a good thing. I get a little bit bored, but some of the songs on here are really good, and I can’t help thinking that this could have been a really great debut EP with maybe 6 songs.
Musically the songs on “We Don’t Need To Whisper” are going into the same territory as some of the songs on Blink 182’s latest (last?) album “Blink 182” (Geffen 2003), and that’s an album that I enjoy quite a bit. Even though I think that “Take Off Your Pants And Jacket” (MCA 2001) is Blink’s best record. The skate-punk mood from earlier Blink 182 is gone, and Angels And Airwaves plays mostly slower pop-songs.
So, if Angels And Airwaves had signed a contract with my record-label (if I had one) I would have tried to talk them into releasing an EP with the following track-list: “Valkyrie Missile”, “Do It For Me Now”, “The Adventure”, “The War”, “Good Day” and “Start The Machine”.
It would have sold millions of copies and I would be filthy rich by now (but that’s not the way it happened). So my suggestion is that you buy this album if you liked the last Blink 182 album, and then you make your own copy of the 6-track EP.
Listen to Angels And Airwaves at: http://www.angelsandairwaves.com/ or www.myspace.com/angelsandairwaves
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