A Conceptual Catastrophe (We Don't Need To Whisper - Angels and Airwaves)

Member Name: rleigh

Product:	We Don't Need To Whisper - Angels and Airwaves
Date:	19/06/08 (52 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: 'The Adventure' is a pretty decent track.

Disadvantages: The rest of the album is incredibly dull.

Having always been a huge fan of Blink 182 I was always going to give the Angels and Airwaves album 'We Don't Need To Whisper' a listen when it was released. The reason for this is that the bands singer and founding member Tom DeLonge was once the bassist of Blink 182 and has always been a musician I have had a particular interest in. I've always considered Tom DeLonge to be quite talented musically and vocally, I was therefore expecting great things from this début album from Angels and Airwaves; unfortunately however this never happened.

One track I believe to be excellent from this album is that of 'The Adventure', it's not the best song in the world but still it is one that I greatly enjoy listening to. This track was actually the lead single from this album and having heard this I was of the understanding that the rest of the album would be just as excellent. 'The Adventure' clocks in at just over five minutes in length, a rock epic in which Tom DeLonge showcases his supreme voice excellently. The music contains a great beauteous quality and everything about this track just seems to fall into place perfectly. If the whole album were as exceptionally well crafted as this one track then 'We Don't Need To Whisper' would be a classic album indeed.

Other than 'The Adventure' this album has very little to offer the listener whatsoever. As the band drones through the fifty minutes of this release there are few times when the music sounds anything close to interesting. For the most part this 'We Don't Need To Whisper' album drags astonishingly so, the music is not very interesting at all and for the most part is in fact really rather repetitive. A definite lack of creativity is shown to be on display here, the music is despicably dull for much of this album and Angels and Airwaves has very little to offer as a band. The music is not bad as such, there's just no energy here whatsoever and the music is therefore not very interesting to listen to.

'We Don't Need To Whisper' is somewhat of a concept album in that all of the songs here revolve around the subject of finding love in the middle of a war zone. It's an atmospheric album, the problem is that the atmosphere is still and lifeless. The concept could have been interesting, it's not however and none of the tracks here present on this album are particularly entertaining at all. Angels and Airwaves progress through this album with a complete lack of direction, an absence of ideas, and an inability to produce music that is in any way, shape, or form in the slightest bit interesting to listen to.

In no circumstance would I ever recommend this 'We Don't Need To Whisper' album from Angels and Airwaves, it's not a good record and certainly does not provide for an entertaining listening experience. The music washes over you, leaving little lasting impression and in fact failing to impact in the slightest. I always appreciated Tom DeLonge as a part of Blink 182, with Angels and Airwaves however the music just fails to impress me and 'We Don't Need To Whisper' is in fact one of most uninspiring albums I have heard in recent years.

Summary: Not an album I'd ever recommend listening to, a droning fifty minutes of dull sound.