After losing squeaky-voiced guitarist Tom DeLonge to higher ambitions yet again, veteran pop-punkers blink-182 (vocalist/bassist Mark Hoppus & drummer extraordinaire Travis Barker) recruited Alkaline Trio's Matt Skiba as a suitable replacement.
2016's California should have been a reinvention of sorts, considering the appetizing experimentation the band was dabbling in with their previous records. However they played it safe here and produced a pretty standard blink-182 record of yesterday with the added minus of some embarrassing joke songs. There's a small handful of great songs and potentially tasty melodic moments here but it's mostly overly-polished boredom that might have actually been a bit more interesting with some rough edges here and there. As a return to form it's an average record but as an album that sets out to prove something it's pretty weak.
2016's California should have been a reinvention of sorts, considering the appetizing experimentation the band was dabbling in with their previous records. However they played it safe here and produced a pretty standard blink-182 record of yesterday with the added minus of some embarrassing joke songs. There's a small handful of great songs and potentially tasty melodic moments here but it's mostly overly-polished boredom that might have actually been a bit more interesting with some rough edges here and there. As a return to form it's an average record but as an album that sets out to prove something it's pretty weak.
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