Love (Angels & Airwaves album)

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LOVE is the third upcoming studio album by alternative rock band Angels & Airwaves. It is set to be released on iTunes on February 14, 2010. The album will be released free of charge due to "corporate underwriting".

Production

The album began production in January 2009, after touring with Weezer in the fall of 2008. Production went very slowly as DeLonge was away on tour with Blink-182. DeLonge has compared the album's space rock influenced sound to that of U2 and Pink Floyd.

On their Facebook page, the band stated that on the 4th of January they returned to the studio to put the finishing touches to the LOVE album in time for the February 14th release.

On January 12th, 2010, the band released a promotional video entitled "C:\Transmission_Love", which contained a short preview of an upcoming song.

On Febuary 9th at 9:00PM, the final step, track sequencing had been finished according to Tom.

Release & special editions

In May 2009, it was announced that the album would be released on Christmas Day. However, on July 19, 2009, DeLonge announced via Modlife that the album will not be released on Christmas day as previously planned, and instead will be released on Valentine's Day. The album will be released free of charge on iTunes on Valentine's Day 2010.

The free download of the album will contain eleven tracks, but a physical copy of the album is also going to be released which will contain the same eleven tracks along with 30 minutes of extra music from the LOVE movie. The extra music will all flow together. Tom Delonge has also indicated that there will be a deluxe edition of the album with even more bonus material; a release date for this has yet to be announced.

The first single from the album, "Hallucinations" was released free of charge on December 23, 2009. Tom Delonge has said that there is a music video in the works for the song.

FUEL TV has announced that they will be releasing the full album on February 12 free of charge. Furthermore, a remix of Hallucinations by Mark Hoppus will be available to all of those who donate money when downloading Love from Modlife.

Track listing

Original CD

1. "The Flight Of Apollo"
2. "Young London"
3. "Hallucinations"
4. "Shove"
5. "Epic Holiday"
6. "Et Ducit Mundum Per Luce"
7. "Soul Survivor (2012)"
8. "Clever Love"
9. "Letters To God Part 2"
10. "Fragments and Fictions"
11. "Some Origins Of Fire"

Bonus tracks

12. "Hallucinations" (Mark Hoppus remix)

This track listing has been officially confirmed by the band via their Modlife page

Sound and preview

The music of LOVE, DeLonge says, will have a progressive rock kind of flavor. "It's like blending Radiohead and U2 together with these kind of Pink Floyd movements", he explains. "Things happen unpredictably and take you to these epic soundscapes. It's very much in the spirit of Angels & Airwaves, but it sounds way, way more thought-out and way more ambitious." In 2008, Tom DeLonge had fun with a new acoustic song, along with various other demos from I-Empire, he later suggested that he would make this into a song. David Kennedy previewed two new songs from the Love album via Modlife in July 2009 with the working titles "Triumphant" and "Epic Holiday". David Kennedy also played a clip of another song in August, The song's title was confirmed to be 'Soul Survivor' by Tom DeLonge in a blog on the band's own Modlife site. During September 2009, a new video was posted on Modlife showing a man in a suit drawing the new Angels & Airwaves logo, this featured a new song clip.

Film

Main article: Love (2010 film)

A movie with the same title LOVE will also be released. It, "tells a story of human life and destiny but at the same time really makes usual moments of life extraordinary. It's a circular narrative in many ways, where it kind of sums up the human race in a time capsule". A 3-minute trailer was released on Friday July 31 2009 their website featuring explosions, heavy artillery and civil-war soldiers. Part of the song "Dear God" was featured during the video. The movie also appears to involve scenes aboard the International Space Station, keeping true to Tom's apparent interest in space as seen in many Angels & Airwaves music videos. The official movie trailer was released on Apple Trailers on Friday, October 30 2009, and is available on Modlife[1]. The film has no relation to the 2008 film, Start the Machine, which was a documentary that followed the making of the first album.

On January 7, Tom shared a bit of the plot of the movie on ModCam, saying that the astronaut goes through a wormhole and meets God.

More was released on the plot of the movie when Tom Delonge was interviewed by ABC. He said, on January 22, that the movie "centers on an astronaut who is stranded in a space station as the Earth collapses."

In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Tom was asked what the movie Love was about. He said, "It starts in the Civil War and you travel through time and space. There’s a couple of different storylines. The main one is, a guy gets sent up to the International Space Station, and he gets abandoned up there. He doesn’t know why. So throughout his years of being stuck up there, he sees the Earth starting to collapse below. He ends up basically becoming the last person alive. And then decades later, he wakes up one day and there’s something outside of his spaceship, in low Earth orbit with him."

References

• Trailer for the film