While Blink-182's pop-punk has given more than its share of entertaining moments over their career, "sonic experimentation" is hardly what you'd expect from their sixth studio album. Within their guitar-bass-drums template, however, they offer moments of playfulness and lyricism that stretch their definition of sound. The tempo changes and uses of (relative) silence in "Violence" and "Stockholm Syndrome" borrow post-punk conventions, and lend a new feel to the band's … mehrtrademark cranked-upness. (The use of treated piano on the latter song also suggests that they’ve bent an ear to a few psychedelic-pop classics in their time.) As with 2001's Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, a theme of loneliness emerges upon the first couple of listens, but this time it feels as if Blink wants to connect it to something larger than before. Growth from the guys who once jokingly celebrated man-on-dog intercourse? Yeah. And best of all, it's worth hearing. --Rickey Wright weniger
CD 1
01 - Feeling This
02 - Obvious
03 - I Miss You
04 - Violence… mehr
05 - Stockholm Syndrome
06 - Down
07 - Fallen Interlude
08 - Go
09 - Asthenia
10 - Always
11 - Easy Target
12 - All of This
13 - Here's Your Letter
14 - I'm Lost Without You weniger