Blink-182 - Neighborhoods

Blink-182 - Neighborhoods


Blink-182, three completely different guys, with opposite music tastes come together, to make this brilliant album.  An album we thought was never going to come.  This isn't the old blink where they tell you to fuck dogs and that your mom is a whore.  Nope, believe it or not they have finally grown up.  They want to be known as a rock band and not a pop punk band anymore.  They've been through a lot in their 4 year hiatus, from Travis Barker's plane crash, to their only producer they ever used Jerry Finn passing away in 2008, and Neighborhoods clearly shows how much they matured.


Where to start on the self-produced album? Easy, the opening track, "Ghost on the Dance Floor."  From the epic intro, to the stadium-rock like chorus, they clearly wanted everyone to make sure they were back, and back for a while.  "Heart's All Gone" and "Natives" show blink trying to bring back the old-school, fast paced songs from the early 90s in an attempt to stay loyal to the fans of the old.  The lead single "Up All Night" released in the summer, had a lot of people confused on the heavily AVA-influenced chorus, and was worried about the future of the album.  But it's songs like "After Midnight" and "Even If She Falls" that just win you over, so perfectly orchestrated.  "Wishing Well" and "This Is Home" are just so catchy and make you wanna bop your head, but "Love Is Dangerous" and "Fighting the Gravity" just throw up a big question mark.  Both are just honestly useless, and serve no purpose to the album.


Overall, this album will be one of my all-time favorites.  It shows their progression as musicians both instrumentally and lyrically.  This just gets you even more excited for what the next album will be like, it won't be like this because they finally got the past behind them, the 3 can co-exist and take over the world once again.


I give this album an 9.2/10


Listen to - Ghost On the Dance Floor, After Midnight, Even If She Falls


Reviewed by - Sean Graham