With the hiatus of pop-punk superstars that make up the band, you would expect the sound of Angels and Airwaves to be much different than what it is. punk+punk+punk+punk=punk...right? NOPE. AVA is for sure characteristic of the Alternative-Rock genre, however, AVA achieves a certain uniqueness that is unprecedented in this certain music scene. This band creates a multimedia supergroup (all members were hand picked by DeLonge) that devotes their sound to providing a true musical experience for their fans. Having been to one of their live shows, I can truly say that listening to them and watching them paralleled any potential religious experience I would personally have. Their sounds are simple to get lost in and at the show I nearly felt as though it were an out of body experience...completely uninebriated.
When the band first started in the studio the would play 2001: A Space Odyssey in a dark room on a big-screen TV. World War II posters of battle scenes and destruction were hung up on the walls around them. This is where they found inspiration for recording. This band, unlike with Delonge's previous work, concentrated on the expression of personal emotion through metaphors to space and the conflicts involving love and war. If you listen to the music, this metaphore shines through...particularly the space theme.
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I think I should revise something I mentioned in this blog...I don't think that my live AVA experience was a religious one. I'm not sure how to explain it....it's not that I felt as though Tom Delonge is a God...no way...though, he is musical sorta-genius. I think that I had heard somewhere along the way that their live shows were compared to religious experience...so I went into it thinking it would be like that. In reality it was just an intense amount of admiration across the entire audience for Tom that made it seem like the band was glowing. In a figurative way. In short---I love the band's music and seeing them live was great. End scene.
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