Angels & Airwaves - I-Empire
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Artist: Angels & AirwavesEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-11-06
Music Label: Geffen Records
Soundtracks:
- Call To Arms
- Everything's Magic
- Breathe
- Love Like Rockets
- Sirens
- Secret Crowds
- Star Of Bethlehem
- True Love
- Lifeline
- Jumping Rooftops
- Rite Of Spring
- Heaven
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Free Music Review: 3-1/2 stars -- If you give this album five stars, you must be a huge blink-182 fan
Hit: 3 Stars
A lot of sources seem to point the finger at Tom DeLonge for the breakup of blink-182. Whether you believe it or not, the evidence does seem to point in that direction because not only did he form Box Car Racer while blink was still around, he formed his new band, Angels & Airwaves, only months after blink broke up. I didn't hear A&A's first album We Don't Need to Whisper, but I still decided to listen to I-Empire.
I also wonder if Tom's heart is really in this material considering it was released only a year after their first album. Anyway, maybe a better title would be I am Stuck in My OLD Empire because although I know Tom is too old to still be singing emo, he has the kind of voice that just isn't suitable for anything BUT that. Remember how on blink's untitled album, Mark was singing lower? Well, Tom's register didn't change at all. There's nothing wrong with that per se, but, well, serious songs and that kind of voice just don't gel like they should. This is especially evidenced when the band shoots for romantic tunes like "Love Like Rockets" and "Breathe" ("True Love" works out pretty well, though).
While none of the songs are bad, the songs that stand out the most are the final two tracks: "Rite of Spring" and "Heaven". The opening track "Call to Arms" is pretty good too, as are the instrumentals "Jumping Rooftops" and "Star of Bethlehem". I-Empire is still satisfying enough for rock fans, but there's really nothing extraordinary here either. B.I.F.
Anthony Rupert
I-Empire Poster
Released only two years after Blink-182 announced its indefinite hiatus, the second album by singer-guitarist Tom DeLonge's other band, Angels & Airwaves, makes it feel like a lifetime. There's not a single poop joke or bubblegum punk anthem to be found among the grand themes of I-Empire, an album that finds the shrill frontman grappling with politics, paranoia, and the spiritual world. Unlike the contributions to his former group's last self-titled release, however, DeLonge has finally realized that getting mature doesn't mean getting boring. For all its cathartic lyrics, I-Empire is actually packed with dazzling, fast-moving songs, like "Everything's Magic" and "Sirens," that bring together U2's widescreen guitar flights with tuneful, straightforward punk melodies. This could very well be his best work yet.--Aidin VaziriAngels & Airwaves first single "Everything's Magic," is a synth-rock anthem that resonates with a refreshing spirit and inspired energy. "Just sit back and hold on tight," sings Tom DeLonge in the song, offering sound advice for the entire album.
Angels & Airwaves is former blink-182 & Box Car Racer guitarist/vocalist Tom DeLonge, Offspring drummer Atom Willard, David Kennedy notably from Hazen Street and Box Car Racer and now former 30 Seconds to Mars bassist Matt Wachter. (Bassist Ryan Sinn, formerly of The Distillers, departed from the band earlier this year).
I-Empire, Angels & Airwaves second album was written and produced by Tom DeLonge.
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