The Singles Jukebox

Pop, to two decimal places.

Angels and Airwaves – Diary

Did Blink-182 break up again or something?


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Will Adams: Four hundred sixty seconds is an awful long time to feel absolutely nothing.
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Patrick St. Michel: After a five-minute-plus build that’s not interesting on its own but teases that something dramatic is on its way, Angels and Airwaves deliver… some muted singing that unfolds in half speed. Ending at the climax of the intro would have been better than the subsequent letdown. 
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Alfred Soto: If it weren’t for that drone, pretty and vacant.
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Anthony Easton: I think those are bagpipes — why are bagpipes not used in pop music more? If they are bagpipes, why are they mixed so low in the track so you can not determine if they are not actually bagpipes? The rest I can take or leave. 
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Iain Mew: Disappointed that it didn’t turn into the score from Chariots of Fire as promised. More disappointed that their attempt at indie-dance eurphoria could be bettered by The Naked & Famous in their sleep.
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Sabina Tang: Tom DeLonge out of Blink-182’s supergroup invites you on an eight-minute journey into inner space (or outer — no one’s fussy). Portentous spoken word [4] segues into ambient drone/piano [6] into an extended bagpipe breakbeat fantasia [7] into… hang on, this sounds like U2 covering Ulrich Schnauss’s “Far Away Trains Passing By” in football stadium mode, to not unlovely effect. [8] I heard Axl Rose was way into Ulrich Schnauss for a hot minute; maybe Tom DeLonge digs him too? Wow, there’s even singing in this! [9] No, wait, it’s back to spoken word again. [4] 
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Brad Shoup: Less serious, more “Sirius.”
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