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Christ they sound like robots on One More Time (the track) - it's so plastic and miserable (and not in a good way). I haven't listened to it properly since the single release and I audibly laughed when Travis' singing part came in.

Given the amount of vocal processing on the new album, one could imagine that this is what their real voices sound like.

Don't see why Cut Me Off didn't make the cut (eh eh?) The landline/lifeline part in the chorus was a nice little melodic section that I didn't expect. The brevity of it is also to its benefit. See You is hot garbage unfortunately.

Ouch https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/blink-182-one-more-time/ Couldn't help but agree with most of it.

Listened to a bit of blink in preparation for the new one. I was skipping a lot of the Tom songs on TOYPAJ and favouring Mark’s. Not Now, Here’s Your Letter and Always are still really enjoyable listens after all these years. In terms of big singles I think First Date and Rock Show are not for me anymore. And when I was revisiting Neighborhoods there were basically no songs that I was getting anything out of (the nostalgia factor with that one is weaker).

I know what you mean The whole album is really clean sounding yet still blown out You can hear it in songs like Terrified and CHildhood - which is a shame because those songs are kinda neat.

In keeping with Mark getting the penultimate song on the album.

The melodies and production choices on this one resemble something close to TOYPAJ - a little bit like Please Take Me Home or Time TO Break Up.

Christ! I just realised you're Tyler!

Cotext is needed to show what a loser that makes me:

You could make a case for a TOYPAJ sound on Dance With Me but otherwise all these new songs still sound like lesser versions of their glory days. However, an inferior blink-182 song is still a blink-182 song so I understand the hype around these new songs - they're not bad (One More Time maybe) but I doubt this new album will be one I'll come back to in the future. The pants don't really bother me...yet.

^^I'm bringing it back. Dance With Me just sounded like any other forgettable California/Nine track I can't quite put my finger on why it sounds that way for me, but I do know that those olés are god awful.

Feldman must be thinking "Olé, Olé, Olé? that's genius...Why didn't I think of that?!"

I can’t believe Travis sings olé’s in every song on the new record except the three we’ve heard already.

It's a bit of a shame Smith's higher and more theatrical singing couldn't be utilised. He still does a great job with what he's given. I still remember exploring the Cure in my early 20s and properly realising how much Tom drew influence (borderline steal) from them for Angels and Airwaves.