Neighborhoods by blink-182

Neighborhoods, Blink-182's sixth album, came out on DGC and Interscope in 2011, eight years after the untitled record and what felt like a lifetime after the band had fallen apart. The trio went on indefinite hiatus in 2005, scattered into side projects, and only regrouped late in 2008 after two tragedies close to the band. Then came the hard part: with longtime producer Jerry Finn gone, Mark Hoppus, Tom DeLonge and Travis Barker tried to produce themselves, working apart in two California studios over more than two years, and the strain seeps through.

The pop-punk bones are still there, but they're buried under synthesizers and proggy detours, and the songs brood on isolation, confusion and death. The title nods to how differently the three of them wrote, like separate corners of one city. It opened at number two on the Billboard 200 yet fell short of what the label wanted, reviews came back split, and it was DeLonge's last Blink album until One More Time... in 2023.

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