Love (Angels & Airwaves album)
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Love is the third studio album by alternative rock band Angels & Airwaves. It will be officially released worldwide on February 14, 2010, Valentine's Day, a holiday significant to love. It will be released free of charge due to "corporate underwriting."
Production
The album which Tom DeLonge says will be the biggest project of his life started to be produced in January 2009 after touring with Weezer for a large part of 2008. Production went very slowly as DeLonge was away on tour with his other band Blink-182. DeLonge has compared the album's space rock influenced sound to that of U2 and Pink Floyd.
Release day
In May 2009 it was announced that the album would be released on Christmas Day[1]. But on July 19, 2009, Tom DeLonge announced via Modlife that the album will not be released on Christmas day 2009 as planned, and will be pushed back until February 14, 2010.
Sound and preview
The music of "LOVE," DeLonge says, will have a prog-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." David Kennedy previewed two new songs from the LOVE album via Modlife in July 2009. These songs are titled 'Triumphant' and 'Riot'. David Kennedy also played a clip of another song in August called 'Open Water'. [2]. On September 28th The full track listing for LOVE was leaked on the internet,(although it has yet to be confirmed). Also released was a snippet of a new song called "Eternal Twilight."[3]
Track listing
- "Riot"
- "Open Water"
- "Triumphant"
- "Eternal Twilight"
All Other track named that have been leaked have yet to be confirmed as Legit.
Movie
A movie with the same title will also be released. It started out as a documentary about Angels & Airwaves recording their 2006 debut album, We Don't Need to Whisper and expanded to a story that "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".[4] 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 "Riot" was featured during the video.
Personnel
- Tom DeLonge – vocals, rhythm guitar
- David Kennedy – lead guitar
- Matt Wachter – bass, backing vocals
- Atom Willard – drums, percussion
Other contributors
- Tom DeLonge – producer
- Critter – co-producer, engineer, sonic manipulation, percussion
- Mr Blobby - co-producer, sound manipulator
- Brian Gardner – mastering
- Doug Reesh – guitar & bass technician