Love is the third studio album by alternative rock band Angels & Airwaves. It is set to be released worldwide on February 14, 2010. It will be released free of charge due to "corporate underwriting".Release date
In May 2009, it was announced that the album would be released on Christmas Day. However, on July 19, 2009, DeLonge announced via Modlife that the album will not be released on Christmas day as planned, and instead will be released on Valentine's Day. The album will be released free of charge on iTunes on Valentine's Day 2010.
Sound and preview
The music of Love, DeLonge says, will have a progressive rock kind of flavor. "It's like blending Radiohead and U2 together with these kind of Pink Floyd movements", he explains. "Things happen unpredictably and take you to these epic soundscapes. It's very much in the spirit of Angels & Airwaves, but it sounds way, way more thought-out and way more ambitious." In 2008, Tom DeLonge had fun with a new acoustic song, along with various other demos from I-Empire, he later suggested that he would make this into a song.
David Kennedy previewed two new songs from the Love album via Modlife in July 2009 with the working titles "Triumphant" and "Epic Holiday". David Kennedy also played a clip of another song in August, The song's title was confirmed to be 'Sole Survivor' by Tom DeLonge in a blog on the band's own Modlife site. In September 2009, a new video was posted on Modlife showing a man in a suit drawing the new Angels & Airwaves logo, this featured a new song clip. Recently Angels & Airwaves have released yet another short video entitled "Elektrogeräte" (German for "electrical devices") on their Facebook page and on YouTube, featuring bizarre electronic sounds combined with various vintage sci-fi iconography from brain washing imagery to rockets in flight. It is unknown whether "Elektrogeräte" is a song title or just the title of the short film. "The Architect" is the latest promotional video by the band, it depicts a character (referred to by both the band and fans as "The Architect") opening a briefcase and taking out a ruler, pencil and compass and begins to draw the new AVA logo on a blank canvas. This video and also the Love feature film trailer feature parts of a new song which DeLonge recently revealed in a chat is tentatively called "Dear God."
On the band's Facebook page it states that they are contemplating changing the song title 'Epic Holiday' to 'Endless Holiday' and are asking fans for their opinion. It was also announced by David Kennedy on Modlife that the band plan to release a single in December 2009 titled "Hallucinations"
On December 14th, Tom posted a blog where he previewed a new song entitled "Sole Survivor" and stated that half of the songs on the album are finished mixing.
Fuel T.V. released a preview of "Hallucinations" on December 17. The single was released on Modlife at 3 PM PST on December 23rd.
The new single "Hallucinations" can now be listened to on their Myspace page and downloaded for free on Modlife.
On their Facebook page, the band stated that on the 4th of January they returned to the studio to put the finishing touches to the LOVE album in time for the February 14th release.
The free download of the album will be ten tracks, but a physical copy of the album is also going to be released which will contain the same ten tracks along with 30 minutes of extra music from the movie. The extra music will all flow together.
Below is the full tracklisting for the album, but is subject to change as it was stated by Tom Delonge that it was a tentative tracklisting.
Track listing
1. "The Flight of Apollo"
2. "It Hurts So Badly"
3. "Young London"
4. "Epic Holiday"
5. "Clever Love"
6. "Triumphant"
7. "Hush"
8. "Dear God"
9. "Hallucinations"
10. "Atomic Seque (Sunshine)
Download - Angels And Airwaves - Hallucinations
