Review
What happens when an emo dude gets happy? In the case of Tom DeLonge — who was blink-182’s wimpier, broodier goofball before he decided to rebrand himself a cosmic-rock messiah — he becomes one kooky-ass hippie. This album, the second from Angels and Airwaves, is thick with U2-aping major-chord bluster and well-meaning meaninglessness. If DeLonge ruled the world, we learn, he’d fill it with “the voices of kids out walking dogs” and “spread hope like fire” (“Sirens”); elsewhere he announces wide-eyed, “the stars in the sky illuminate the love.” It’s a shame. DeLonge is hungry for the vast truths of the universe, but there were more of those in one bar of blink’s “First Date” than on this whole record.
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