'Blink 182 suck!'Perhaps. Love them with all your joy-filled heart or abhor them to the depths of your being, Blink appear to be back this year, both to woo fans who never got a chance to see them, and to piss off the punk-pop naysayers one more time. Ahh, it's the tail-end of the nineties all over again.
Leaving much of the 14-16 crowd in a state of dumbfounded despair when they announced their break-up in 2005 (I was in Year 11 personally, traumatising stuff), they did leave behind their eponymous final album, showing an adult take on things; sombre, edgy, interestingly textured, 'Blink 182' was an absolute blast of an album, sitting comfortably on a mature pedestal next to the more iconic 'Take Off Your Pants and Jacket' and 'Enema of the State'.
Will we see an evolution of this later sound? Hopefully. Who wants to hear a band in their thirties sing about it being nice if your mother would give them a blowjob? Eww.
Summer, 2009. That's what it says on their site: recording a new album, and a planned tour. This comeback will either be utterly, utterly catastrophic, or simply quite pleasant. The only way this band will make a genuinely triumphant return is if they pull something very special out of the bag. Their songwriting, simple yet to the point (like all great pop-punk), will be the decider on whether they manage this.
After all, they do seem to like sodomising dogs.
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