When Blink-182 introduced its reunion with Tom DeLonge on Tuesday, the group additionally teased the Friday launch of the primary single from its upcoming album. That music, “Edging,” has now arrived.
Blink-182’s first monitor with DeLonge in practically a decade doesn’t embody any overt dick jokes, secrets and techniques about aliens or blatant references to banging your dad and mom, however it does characteristic some classically Blink traces like “I’m a punk rock child, I got here from hell with a curse / She tried to wish it away, so I fucked her in church.”
“Edging” is technically solely Blink-182’s first new music since 2019’s 9, however it’s the primary with authentic guitarist DeLonge since 2012’s Canines Consuming Canines EP and positively a breath of contemporary air for many who most popular the band’s traditional lineup. DeLonge break up with Hoppus and Barker in 2015, and Blink has been enjoying with Alkaline Trio singer Matt Skiba ever since. Hoppus additionally efficiently battled most cancers.
DeLonge thanked Skiba for his time in Blink in an Instagram put up, saluting “all that you’ve finished to maintain the band thriving in my absence. I believe you might be enormously proficient (I nonetheless love and hearken to your band to at the present time). You might have at all times been so variety to me, not solely within the press, but in addition to others. I actually seen. Feelings between the three of us in Blink have at all times been sophisticated, however Mark’s most cancers actually put issues in perspective. However to be trustworthy, the band wouldn’t even be right here at the moment if it weren’t in your capacity to leap in and save the day. So from my coronary heart to yours, thanks for being a member of our band.”
The subsequent 5 months are just about assured to be stuffed with extra songs and details about the reunited pop-punk dads’ upcoming album, forward of a large reunion tour that begins in Tijuana subsequent March. Dates are on the books by an early 2024 go to to Australia and New Zealand.
