As I grow older, the more and more I appreciate the magic of Angels & Airwaves + the whole Neighborhoods and Dogs Eating Dogs era. My dream is they will go back to that sound or at least explore it more. One of the many reasons why I love tracks like "Can't Go Back" and "See You" from One More Time.
Turpentine is also a song that sounds like a dogs eating dogs song. It makes sense for them to go in that direction, a natural progression of their music. Although a few fast-punk and hardcore songs every now n then are welcomed too.
I’ll admit, I was a junior in high school when it was released, and I was wanting it to be self-titled part 2, and when it wasn’t, I was disappointed. It took revisiting it months later for it to click with me. Then it was suddenly like, “Well, it still wasn’t what I was expecting…but it’s actually not bad. This actually isn’t bad at all. Okay, I can dig this.”
