My whole life has been this insane search for validation as an artist. Tom DeLonge: Thanks, I appreciate you pulling out that lyric.
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Digital Trends rang up DeLonge, who turns 39 next week (er, what’s my age again?), to discuss how to merge feel with technique, the best way to rearrange power chords, and how he reconciles his high-res desires with his punk-driven roots.ĭigital Trends: The Dream Walker covers a lot of ground, but I think my favorite line on it is in the very last song, Anomaly, where you say, “I never wanted to coast / I wanted to be an anomaly.” That’s a pretty telling line for the character of Poet Anderson - and maybe for you, too. The album itself is a pulsating intersection of post-rock and electronic sounds, from the fuzzed-out drive of Paralyzed to the heightened dance wash of Kiss With a Spell to the new-wave jangle of Bullets in the Wind. “Literally, half of our life is spent doing this thing we know very little about, and yet we write it off as not being important.” The Dream Walker character is our Jedi - kind of like if Tron had a child.” “I think it’s an interesting exercise to dig into them and find out what dreams mean. Why such a focus on dreams? “Literally, half of our life is spent doing this thing we know very little about, and yet we write it off as not being important,” observes DeLonge, who also continues to split his time as vocalist/guitarist for Blink-182. The Dream Walker (out today via AVA on various platforms) tells the tale of one Poet Anderson, who’s described as “a Lucid Dreamer with the rare ability to be aware of his dreams while they’re happening.” How Poet interacts with his own personal Dream Walker, who protects him from a vicious Night Terror monster, is a story that interweaves across a number of multimedia platforms - including the 14-minute animated short film Poet Anderson: The Dream Walker (which recently won the Best Animated Short Film Award at the Toronto International Short Film Festival), comic book, novel, and live-action motion picture. No doubt about it - Tom DeLonge is a modern-day Dream Weaver.Īs prime evidence, we submit Angels & Airwaves’ The Dream Walker, the brainchild of frontman/guitarist DeLonge and multi-instrumentalist Ilan Rubin. Doing something you’re not supposed to be doing, and although you might die while doing it, it’s still very much keeping you feeling alive. Lyrically, this song is specifically about balancing on the edge of a razor blade. We wanted to create a sound that had electronic elements right alongside classic rock and pop-punk melodic structures. “It opens with three-part harmonies to create an introduction with multi-dimensionality.
“The beginning of the song is really an ode to The Beach Boys,” Tom DeLonge explains.
Like little kids they will fight til they all get their wayīombs away Read More: Hayley Willams bringing back Sanctuary of Self-Love for Bonnaroo 2020Īngels & Airwaves are currently on their winter tour and recently dropped a music video for their song "Kiss & Tell".īack when they dropped the song, Tom DeLonge gave further insight into how the song came together.
Suburban kings they will die but will rise up one day I'm holding my head is gonna blow up right on What's the meaning behind this post? Is DeLonge just plugging an album he put out four years ago or is he just being nostalgic? Regardless, it's a nice thought to reminisce about just how far blink-182 came from where they started.
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