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Blink-182 have added two new bonus tracks — “Cut Me Off” and “See You” — to their big classic lineup reunion album, One More Time.
Both songs are gigantic blasts of pop-punk angst, though each with its own particular flourishes. “See You” bolsters the palm-muted power-chord chug with sky-high synths and even an atmospheric breakbeat sample. “Don’t let us be over, I’ll wait here forever,” Tom DeLonge and Mark Hoppus sing on the chorus. “You can’t burn us with your flame/I’ll see you anyway.”
“Cut Me Off,” meanwhile, balances the distortion with some more reverb-soaked riffs snaking through the background. There’s even some dang cowbell on the track, as well as some vintage Blink self-deprecation: “Broken and pathetic, maybe it’s genetic/I’m a landmine, not a lifeline (Cut me off).”
Blink-182 dropped One More Time last week, marking the first album DeLonge, Hoppus, and Travis Barker have made together since 2011’s Neighborhoods. After DeLonge left the group in 2015, he was replaced by Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba, who appeared on two Blink albums, 2016’s California and 2019’s Nine.
Blink-182’s classic lineup announced their reunion in 2022 and have spent this year playing shows across North America and Europe in the lead-up to the release of One More Time. Next year, they have shows scheduled in Australia and New Zealand before kicking off another North American tour in June 2024 (that run will even include some stadium gigs in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Toronto, and the band’s hometown of San Diego).
To promote the new tour dates, Blink did one of the most online things any punk band can do: played a set at a Denny’s. Nodding to the viral video of hardcore band, Live Without, getting a riotous pit going at a local Denny’s. Blink set up at the chain diner and delivered a rendition of their One More Time track “Anthem Part 3.” And Hoppus, of course, made sure to shout the meme’s unforgettable rallying cry, “What the fuck is up, Denny’s?!”
This story was updated at 3:19 p.m. ET with Blink’s Denny’s promo video.
