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From the introspective debut ‘We Don’t Need to Whisper’ to the exploratory ‘I, Empire’, Angels & Airwaves are one of the few big stadium rock bands left whose album releases add a little delight to everyday happenings.

The third full-length named ‘Love’ was released a while back and on the first few weeks hit an astonishing amount of downloads – over 500 000. The record marks a new approach by band to consumer and fan. Free of all charge, you can get on the action of ‘Love’ on angels-and-airwaves.com.

The 11-song epos, soon coming to a theater near you, entrusts on DeLonge’s songwriting talents to grasp the fan-approved sound of previous records and bundle them into an esoteric explanation of human relationships and the mystery of love. While being offered free-of-charge the record has a twisted familiarity to it – the ease of access to ‘Love’ can play against it but with a nicely arranged introduction piece and the more memorable songs put at the start, the record can only gain followers.

Smart business people as AVA are, they’ve easily combined their authentic, larger-than-life sound and pop qualities with the most popular subject of music since the beginning of time. All the way ‘Love’ feels solid, accomplished and wired exactly to tackle your emotions with the familiar background acoustics, occasional anthemism, melancholic melodies, spacious echos, attractive guitar riffs and, as always, brilliantly sounding drums. The main difference sonically between the previous records are the amassed spheric and electronica volumes that evoke the intro’s and outro’s and paint a familiar picture in sophisticated and eclectic colors.

If you like or hate DeLonge or Blink, give ‘Love’ a spin, because Angels & Airwaves are still one of the most distinctly sounding big rock bands from the US with an excitement and hope to their songs that can make you run marathons.

Seems that a white guy with guitar still has a place in music.