hey Chris Liepe here Blink 182 edging Tom delong's first new song with them in 10 years
pretty cool glad this band is getting along and putting out some new stuff I have not listened
to this or watched the video Don't Know What To Expect hopefully you've already watched the video
listen to the song without any interruptions I'm going to be stopping the video here and
there to offer my commentary this is a singing Channel and if you have any interest at all in
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foreign
all right first of all incredible drum sounds I love the oversaturated
sound but it's still clear it doesn't sound muddy
I don't know if they recorded it directly to tape or not but it does have that sort of tape breakup
so cool sounding also the vocals are super up front they're very compressed multi-stage
compression I am guessing he's compressing on the way in he's got some saturation happening in the
Daw but this is a very warm sound excellent sounding production Travis Barker mentioned
several times that they put a lot of work into making this song sound good and so far it shows
notice Tom's disposition when he sings like your typical karaoke singer if someone was covering
the song without putting too much thought into it would be very focused on the notes focused
on getting the melody line you can tell even though this is a You Know music video and a
mime to the studio recording there's a really really really large emphasis on spitting those
words out he's also using compression not audio compression but vocal compression he's holding
back a little bit of air to get that middle range grit grit grit at the same time he's
getting that those notes out there those words and that's really helping bring in addition
to the production bring that vocal performance right up front of a really powerful sounding band
I gotta find my eyes
special place in hell with Mark and Tom trading off vocals in a Blink 182 song
All Is Right In Music Land no notice the difference in their approaches though I
mentioned that Tom is is a lot more aggressive and pronunciative if that's a word and Mark is
a bit more timid and pure sounding but they really complement each other well
and the layering that they do is incredible you've got the the slightly more reserved
sound of Mark and the slightly more upfront sound but they're not different enough that
if you weren't paying attention that you'd be like oh they blend really really well together
place to go when it's time
that that kind of
totally indicative of what he does and what makes his vocals pop and stand out as his own
you wanna play
this way do that hey hey over in the the right ear if you're
listening headphones I love that those little incidental sort of vocal things
this way
well good poppy powerful hooky song it's what I would expect I didn't exceed my expectations but
it didn't not meet them I mean I I enjoyed the song it's going to be stuck in my head
for a while I think one of the challenges that heavier pop music like this has is
being hooky and not being cheesy and both Blink 182 and Angels and Airwaves I think I've done
a really good job of this creating songs that that feel that feel genuine and and not like
they're trying to write a song that everybody will like but they're they're writing songs
that they think people will enjoy but that are are uniquely expressions of them as musicians
and that's what I like about that's what I've always liked about blinking 182 and Angels and
Airwaves good good stuff thanks for checking out my reaction vocal analysis to this song be sure
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