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| Strangeglue |
 Released on Valentine's Day as a free-of-charge download album, 'Love' will receive a physical release in the future. To grab the album, head over to the Modlife subpage (Facebook account required).Usually these are the albums which bands knock out in a few weeks using tracks which weren't deemed strong enough to make the A-list grade. To AvA's credit, Love is an album one year in the making, part of a multi-media project and is being initially offered free-of-charge. Quality-wise it also stands up to anything the band have released before. There was one phrase which seems to have forever lodged in our minds when it comes to Angels & Airwaves. One quote from a long-forgotten source which beautifully summarises the work of AvA as: "the best music that Tom DeLonge could ever make". Nothing much seems to change over the three studio albums which have so far been put to the band's name. Drum beats are often recycled, DeLonge's vocals retain the same nasally nature and the guitars stay buried under a thousand twinkling effects layers. On a larger scale, it's unlikely to garner more than a passing nod of approval when compared to contemporary indie/experimental artists, but there's something almost charming in DeLonge's messianic ambition and subsequent lack-of-delivery. He's like a puppy who plays dead when you tell him to sit. Obedient: no, adorable: yes. Yet just because DeLonge and co. seem forever consigned to the 'just above average' region of the critical scale doesn't mean that their albums can't be an enjoyable experience. There are even rare breakout moments, like say "The Flight of Apollo" where the guitars make a rare deviation from their usual low-key, fed through six settings on the effects pedal performance and are promoted to a full-crunch distortion role at the front of the mix. Riffs are rare on this album, the focus instead put towards constructing a pleasant atmospheric base for DeLonge's semi-spoken-word vocals; so when one is included, an impact is made, not necessarily a long-lasting one, but like a service-station on a motorway, it breaks up the journey a little....full text |
| Absolutepunk |
| Whether you feel love, hate or indifference toward him, Tom Delonge is definitely one of the most fascinating figures in music today. Here's a guy who didn't have a whole lot of folks in his corner after the dissolution of the beloved Blink-182, and his startlingly self-aggrandizing statements about how his new music with Angels and Airwaves would change rock music certainly didn't help endear him to people. In interviews talking about his new band, Delonge frequently sounded like a total space cadet with a tenuous grip on reality, and I think all of this left a sour taste that had an unfortunate effect on how the debut album We Don't Need to Whisper was received. I still uphold that despite some of the feelings people had toward Delonge over the Blink breakup and the almost asinine level of hype he tried to generate for his new music, Whisper stood on its own as a solid pop-rock album. It was far removed from the sound of Blink-182, and it didn't deliver on the promise of changing the way we think about music, but expectations aside, it was a strong set of likable songs that forged a remarkably unique sound. Although there was chatter about similiarities to U2 and The Cure, which weren't entirely off-base, all it takes is one listen to "Et Ducit Mundum Per Luce", the instrumental opener of Angels and Airwaves' new third album Love, to realize that the band have an immediately recognizable aesthetic that's unmistakably their own....full text |
| Prefixmag |
| Who would've thought that Angels & Airwaves, originally thought of as Tom DeLonge of Blink-182's side project, had this much ambition in them. Love is a project consisting of an album and a film of the same name, conceived of entirely by Angels & Airwaves. It's not really clear what the concept is driving all of this creation, but it's certainly a heady one. Of the release, DeLonge said, "It is the biggest release of my life, the pinnacle of my creativity. It's super conceptual and highbrow in many ways, very artistic, very Stanley Kubrick, but it's not a rock opera. It's a very modern version of what could happen when you blend the film industry and the music industry together in a very, very arty, kind of cool way with professionals involved all along the path."...full text |
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