It’s currently been two years since Blink-182 released their last album, California, and both the band and their fans are already looking forward to the group’s next record. However, according to a new interview with Mark Hoppus, it seems that fans are on track to receive an album that sounds a lot like their work from the early ’00s.
While most fans were somewhat apprehensive about the release of Blink-182’s last album following the departure of founding member Tom DeLonge, the group ended up seeing their biggest chart success for a studio album to date, with many citing the record as a return to form for the band.
Now, speaking to Zane Lowe on Apple Music’s Beats 1 (via Kerrang!), Mark Hoppus has explained how the new full-length is shaping up. “We are well into the writing of the next record,” he explained. “It’s still in the writing stage, so it will probably change over time but right now it’s really aggressive and really catchy and dark and weird.”
“If you take California and compare it to Enema Of The State, I would say that what we’re writing now is more in line with Take Off Your Pants And Jacket and the Untitled record.”
Blink-182 were also in the news this week following the revelation that the group had been forced to postpone a handful of shows after drummer Travis Barker was diagnosed with blood clots in his arm.
”Travis has blood clots in his arms right now, so we’ve had to cancel last weekend and the next weekend and we’re going to reschedule those,” Hoppus explained to Zane Lowe. “But I don’t know what the prognosis or the treatment is yet.”
“I know that Travis is in and out of the doctors this week so hopefully we’ll have some resolution with that. But the intention is to go back and make up those dates and continue our residency because it’s super fun. We have a lot of pyro on the stage and it’s been really fun.”
As it stands, it’s also been five years since Blink-182 were last in Australia, with the band performing here in 2013 as part of the Soundwave Festival. While Travis Barker wasn’t able to make it over due to his understandable fear of flying, we hope that the future might see him making it over to Aussie shores once again.
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