Blink-182 – California
Released July 1st, 2016
Blink-182 has returned with their seventh LP, California. After a stretch of uncertainty and stagnation, after Tom DeLonge was kicked out and Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba stepped in, we come realize they weren’t really missed. And California does little to make us want them back. California is the sound of a band desperately trying to remain relevant by outsourcing its creativity. Goldfinger frontman, John Feldmann was tapped as both the producer and a co-writer of California. The result is a collection of songs that could just as easily pass for any other band in Feldmann’s stable. And while it doesn’t wallow in formulaic nostalgia, it does sound like a desperate grasp at lost youth and faded glory.
3 out of 5 stars
