Blink-182 Streaming Full New Album ‘Neighborhoods’ Online

Considering picking up the new Blink 182 album Neighborhoods but aren’t fully convinced? Give the full release a listen before you buy. Reported by NME this morning, Blink 182 is streaming their new album in full. Listen to all tracks here.

Blink 182’s first album in eight years, Neighborhoods came out yesterday in two editions: a standard 10-track LP and a 13-track deluxe version. Why the two versions? In speaking with NME, bassist Mark Hoppus mentioned: “I think it's pretty much standard practice now to have a standard and deluxe edition. I think some people are only mildly interested in a band and might only want the standard edition and some are more hardcore fans and will want the B-sides. But, I don't think any of these are B-sides.”

Deluxe – or bonus – editions can be questionable and often look like an easy grab for cash. Hoppus, however, doesn’t think this is the case with Neighborhoods: "Even the bonus tracks on this album to me feel like they're part of the record. The deluxe edition is the record as it should be heard. I don't feel like we had ten songs that were good and three songs that we threw on as some kind of lame B-side bonus thing. That's why we re-sequenced the record using those additional songs, because to us they're very much part of the record."

Before you stream, what should you expect? Hoppus explained to NME a week ago that the band isn’t the same it used to be, at least recording-wise, and that Neighborhoods is darker than Blink 182’s previous releases: “We’ve had people say to us that they think the songs sound more mature, which is probably right, but we've tried to stay away from that word [mature], because every album we've released after 'Enema Of The State' has been called 'the mature Blink record’. But I think, lyrically, it’s a little darker than the stuff we normally do, I think the songs are more intricately structured, I think the parts are more well written.”

If you’ve had a chance to listen to Neighborhoods, what are your thoughts on the record?