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Blink-182's last album, from 2003, incorporated moody atmospherics and emo heartache into the group's punk throttling and catchy goofs. With Angels and Airwaves, former Blink singer-guitarist Tom DeLonge expands on his old band's recent heaviness with epic love songs that pack as much arena grandeur as they do forward momentum. On We Don't Need to Whisper -- Angels' debut and the soundtrack to an as-yet-untitled movie -- DeLonge yanks heartstrings with so-so results. Songs like "Start the Machine" set his cathartic choruses over loud-soft-loud rushes, synth washes and fussy guitar parts that evoke U2's The Joshua Tree. Carpe diem anthems like "The Adventure" burn with wailed hooks and everydude candor, but when DeLonge stages a melodramatic goodbye amid the boomy space rock of "The War," the combination of desperation and bombast borders on overkill.
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Track List
- Valkyrie Missile
- Distraction
- Do It For Me Now (Album Version (Edited))
- The Adventure
- A Little's Enough
- The War
- The Gift
- It Hurts (Album Version (Edited))
- Good Day
- Start The Machine
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