“Rabbit Hole” by blink-182

"Rabbit Hole" comes from California, the 2016 album that introduced blink-182's new shape: Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker, with Alkaline Trio frontman Matt Skiba standing where Tom DeLonge used to be. All three wrote it with John Feldmann, the first producer since Jerry Finn to run a blink record on his own, who took them into Foxy Studios early that year and kept them at it for 18-hour days.

The band had already shelved dozens of earlier songs to start fresh with him, and all told more than 50 got recorded. Zakk Cervini and Matt Pauling engineered and added production, and a small crowd shared the mix: Neal Avron, Ben Grosse, Dan Lancaster and Cervini again. Critics split over whether California was a welcome return to the old sound or too long and too much Feldmann; either way, this one made the cut.

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