.Blink182 share their tour diary and their innermost thoughts.
, Blink-182 use music to cope with it all.
The new songs are largely about healing—from depression, anxiety, failed relationships, a broken political system—and features the signature Blink-182 sound, combining punky guitar and drums with earwormy pop melodies. The album jumps from lighthearted, upbeat tracks to more heavy-hitting ones as a result.
It took a long time for the band to gather all of these emotions into a cohesive album. They first broke ground onback in January 2018. “We got in the studio and started kicking ideas around, and came out with four to five really cool songs,” says Hoppus. “Then we fell into a rut. We kept writing the same song over and over again.” After briefly shelving the album and signing with their new label, Columbia, they had a creative epiphany and went back to the studio.
While Hoppus insists that slavish genre loyalty is dead, the popularity of 2000s-era punk bands is definitely on the uptick. Earlier this month,that Green Day, Weezer, and Fall Out Boy will embark on a “Hella Mega Tour” in 2020—three groups that, much like Blink, share a severe nostalgia factor. “People who grew up listening to that are adults now,” Hoppus says, “and they are wanting to go back to that feeling when they were young and listening to music.
As Blink-182 finishes off their tour with some final dates in October—they play the Barclays Center in Brooklyn tonight, Hoppus hopes both old and new fans will be open to their evolved sound, and find something to relate to on the album—and, if not, just tosomething at a time when we can all be afraid to explore our collective traumas. “I really wanted to put it all out there on this record: every self doubt and dark thought,” Hoppus says.
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