THE BEST WAY TO DESCRIBE THIS ALBUM
Is that it has taken me 12 years to learn how to write songs like this," says Angels & Airwaves mastermind Tom DeLonge. "It's taken 20 million records sold and arenas sold out across the world with Blink-182 to learn how music affects people, how it should be presented live and how to keep people interested [while taking] them on a journey." Big words for the former king of the pop-punk heap; will his new band's debut continue the style? Apparently not. "The songs are all six minutes long, and [the music] feels like you're going to cry but you put your fist in the air and you can conquer the world…It's build on a punk-rock foundation, but it definitely doesn't sound like Blink. DeLonge sites this work as the most incredible music. Not only that he has written, but that he has ever heard. Imagine if you were in a jet plane, soaring through the clouds. That's what it sounds like." The band - DeLonge, guitarist Dave Kennedy (Box Car Racer), bassist Ryan Sinn (The Distillers) and drummer Atom Willard (Offspring) - hope to put a song online before Christmas, with the currently 10-song, 75 minute album following this April - concurrent with the movie of the same name hitting theatres. But that's a whole other Most Anticipated feature in itself…