We finally received some update on Blink-182’s new LP thanks to the band’s bassists Mark Hoppus. According to Hoppus, who recently had a chat with Kerrang!, the rock/punk trio is currently working on the for the album which should be a lot different than their fans might expect.
“After playing in this band for 27 years, I want to push it and do different things and take blink to places where we haven’t been before, ” Hoppus told Kerrang!. “We’re really trying to do that on the new record. We want to do with our band what we did in 2003 with Untitled, where we take our foundations and go off in completely weird directions.”
The 46-year-old added that he, drummer Travis Baker and guitarist/vocalist Matt Skiba are writing new songs and spend a lot of time in the studio.
“We’re in the studio all the time,” – he said. “That’s the thing, our main bands are our main focus and will always be. We all have our outside interests and our outside things, but we’re pretty straightforward with one another; blink really is everybody’s priority and that’s understood among all of us.”
After founding member Tom DeLonge left Blink-182 in 2015, Mark Hoppus and Travis Baker decided to recruit Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba to replace him and record a new album with them. The new formation released their first studio effort in 2016 when they presented California. Despite the mixed reviews from the critics, the album was well received by the audience and ended up topping charts in several countries including the United States and the United Kingdom.
