When Your Heart Stops Beating by +44

When Your Heart Stops Beating, the one and only album from +44, came out on Interscope on November 13, 2006, and it's what Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker built from the wreckage of Blink-182. The pair started it in 2005 as an electronic tinkering project, named it after the UK's international dialing code, the country where they'd first hatched the idea, then filled it out with guitarists Shane Gallagher and Craig Fairbaugh. Old Blink hand Jerry Finn co-produced.

Hoppus has called these his most direct songs, and they sting: bitter, open-wound pop-punk about a band falling apart, laced with gothic new wave gloom, keyboards, samples and programmed beats, lurching from moody hush to crashing chorus, with Barker pounding like his life depends on it. It cracked the Billboard 200 top ten but fell short of expectations, and a second album died when Blink reunited in 2009.

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