Angels And Airwaves : I-Empire
Track List :
1. Call To Arms
2. Everything's Magic (Final Album Version)
3. Breathe
4. Love Like Rockets
5. Sirens
6. Secret Crowds
7. Star Of Bethlehem
8. True Love
9. Lifeline
10. Jumping Rooftops
11. Rite Of Spring 12. Heaven
It's no coincidence that Tom DeLonge's second Angels and Airwaves album emerges as the presidential race begins its one-year sprint to Election Day — the former singer-guitarist for Nineties doo-doo-joke punks Blink-182 is campaigning too. His quest: to follow the career path of the Beastie Boys and refashion immaturity into the Important Album. The results so far: mixed. I-Empire is full of big, faintly Eighties-sounding chiming choruses and arms-outstretched melodies, and DeLonge deploys the signposts of significance all over, from the martial drumbeats of the album opener, "Call to Arms," to the unmistakably Edge-y riff of the closer, "Heaven." It works, sometimes. "Call to Arms" tingles with anticipation and a catchy high-pitched vocal that's less appealing the next three times DeLonge repeats nearly the same four-note melody ("Everything's Magic," "Sirens," "Secret Crowds"). In Blink, cheesy yearbook-scrawl lyrics like "Did I tell you I love you?" were balanced by bratty guitar. Set off by poppy, twinkling synth rock here, they're painfully earnest. It all sounds like the soundtrack to a last-party-of-the-summer-bro! flick. Now-thirtysomething DeLonge's disarming voice still sounds like it's coming from the throat of a teenager, which may be his biggest hurdle to achieving world domination.
Source : Rolling Stone
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