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Blink-182 NEIGHBORHOODS (EX) VinylWhen blink 182 split in 2005 due to growing tensions in the band, it seemed like they were done for good, and as the members went on to find success with their own new bands, it started to seem less and less likely they they would ever end their hiatus. In 2008, though, a series of tragedies, including the death of longtime producer Jerry Finn and Barker's near fatal plane crash, brought the trio back together. With their friendships mended, the band

CONGRATULATIONS is a gratifying payoff

Martin Ditcham (drums

and some hippie-ish calls for a peaceful utopia

and guitarist takes it back to the early '60s

Joe Shulman

this sophomore album continues those changes by turning its back on the hushed sound of For Emma

Perhaps more soulful in the traditional sense are the boogie-based "Hard Luck Story" or propulsive Bo Diddley beat that drives "Billy Bones and the White Bird

and Gourley's falsetto

Where the Canadian troubadour's previous albums all sounded like carefully constructed towers of song

Though the earliest tracks like "Warsaw" and "Leaders of Men" were a strange sort of art punk

and prophet ("One Love/People Get Ready") are equally represented

dealing with the death of a freedom rider -- and dedicated to Simon's slain Queens College classmate Andrew Jacobs -- it was what first interested Columbia Records producer Tom Wilson in Simon & Garfunkel

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