Angels And Airwaves - We Dont Need to Whisper

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Blink 182
Boxcar Racer
Hazen St.
The Offspring

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Geffen Records

Tracklist

1. Valkyrie Missile
2. Distraction
3. It Hurts
4. Do It For Me Now
5. The Adventure
6. The War
7. A Little's Enough
8. The Gift
9. Good Day
10. Start The Machine

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When Tom DeLonge announced the conception of Angels and Airwaves he cristened their work "The best music made in decades" and talked of "Epic songs well over six minutes in length and an album of 65-75 minutes" . With their debut album clocking in at 50:10 and only one song over six minutes, this album falls short on all accounts.

Angels and Airwaves is assembled of musicians from bands we have all heard of: Tom DeLonge, vocals/guitar (Blink 182, Boxcar Racer); David Kennedy, guitar (Hazen St./Boxcar Racer); Ryan Sinn, bass (The Distillers); and Atom Willard, drums (The Offspring). The album leads off with "Valkyrie Missle", a slow starter that features a 2:40 long insturmental intro that includes cosmic astronaut sound effects and it really lost my attention through all that. The album recovered slightly with "It Hurts" which has been made a single, and rightfully so as it has the best selling potential of any song on this album. Another bright spot of this album is the song "A Little's Enough", a ballad of sorts that becomes more uptempo and maintains interest throughout. Perhaps the best track on the album is titled "The Adventure", the lone track that I found to be actually flooring it and truly exhibited the talent that this band may actually possess, but doesn't seem to know how to use.

I have a few big issues with this album. First off Tom DeLonge's voice. I know everyone can agree that Tom's voice isn't the greatest, but it's tolerable to some capacity. I would have found it very effective to contrast Tom's voice by utilizing backing vocals. Instead Tom's voice is backed in many songs by more of Tom's voice. Also with a seemingly good cast of musicians, I expected some pretty good musicianship out of these guys. But what we got musically was another Blink 182 album with the addition of synthesized sound effects. The album also has a feeling of overproduction, which seems to be the case because of Tom's initial comments of longer songs and I'm curious as to what may have been lost in final production. With album number one, Angels and Airwaves fall short of expectations, but do show some potential for what could follow.

--Andy Young

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Last updated: 09/29/2009 08:54PM

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Aaron Yarborough
04/27/2006
01:18PM
Age: 30
Location
Atascadero, CA
this cd really wasnt as bad as i was anticipating.. its like some almost electronic blink-182 of sorts and well i figured it would be total garbage but i could actually stomach to listen to a few tracks.

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iamnotyourbroom
04/27/2006
01:32PM
Location
Charleston, SC
i actually enjoyed this cd too...it's about average...good background music for studying or writing papers
Dante
04/27/2006
02:18PM
Age: 22
Location
Fort Bragg, CA
to sum up this band: lol
iamtheinterweb
04/27/2006
03:15PM
Location
irvine, CA
i don't get why people think this album is so bad. granted, i am a tom delonge ballsucker, but even objectively it's not that bad. sure, it's average, but the only setback i see is the vocals. the music is a pretty big departure from blink (i honestly don't see most of the comparisons), in my opinion.
Chris Conlan
04/27/2006
03:48PM
Age: 27
Location
Dubuque
Yeah, I thought the album was average as well.

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Mitch2742
04/27/2006
07:09PM
It feels like an album that will be tons better in good quality--not the subpar leak that's going around. At first I absolutely depised it, but it's come to grow on me a lot and now I think it's pretty sweet but nothing mind-blowing.
Aaron Yarborough
04/27/2006
07:12PM
Age: 30
Location
Atascadero, CA
there's a good leak of it

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Kerwin White
04/28/2006
09:22AM
Age: 26
Location
blockbuster
I like Tom Delonge's voice.

.....what?
Rick Gebhardt
06/28/2006
08:01AM
Age: 31
Location
Minnesota
Ummm... well, this disc wasn't good, but it was far from terrible. A little boring and such throughout, but I'd toss it in the average pile.

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