“Cynical” by blink-182

"Cynical" comes from California, the seventh blink-182 album, out on July 1, 2016, and the first with Alkaline Trio frontman Matt Skiba filling the spot left by founding member Tom DeLonge. It's credited to Skiba, singer and bassist Mark Hoppus, drummer Travis Barker and producer John Feldmann, who wrote with the band and ran the sessions at Foxy Studios early in 2016.

Those sessions were a grind. After shelving dozens of songs written before Feldmann came aboard, the trio started fresh and kept 18-hour days, recording upwards of 50 songs in all. Zakk Cervini and Matt Pauling engineered and added production, and the mix passed through Neal Avron, Ben Grosse, Dan Lancaster and Cervini. The album went on to top the US chart, the band's first there in 15 years.

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