A formula that works

k-182 broke up back in 2005, and you were all sad? Then Blink guitarist/vocalist Tom DeLonge formed Angels & Airwaves, which sounds pretty much exactly like Blink-182, and everything was okay again? Don’t we all.

Angels existed to fill a very specific void, but now that Blink-182 is back in action, it would be easy for the successors to fade away. Instead of rolling over and dying, however, Angels and Airwaves followed up its 2010 album “LOVE” with “LOVE: Part Two” and kept on rockin’.

Unlike the rather dark “Neighborhoods” Blink just released, “LOVE: Part Two” deals with the same old stuff they always sang about like high school love and how it’s still scary.

Even though it sounds the same as everything they’ve ever done, at least it doesn’t sound worse. DeLonge has found a formula he likes, and damn it all if we don’t like it, too.