Formed after Blink-182 went on hiatus in 2005, the band has continued to record and tour despite DeLonge reigniting his career with Blink-182 in 2009. The band has established themselves as very prolific musicians having released four studio albums
We Don't Need to Whisper (2006),
I-Empire (2007),
Love (2010) and
Love: Part Two (2011) in the space of 5 years. The project also resulted in the documentary film
Start the Machine(2008). In 2011, accompanying the two
Love albums, the group scored and produced the
science fiction drama film Love by director
William Eubank in 460 theatres nationwide during their multimedia event,
Love Live. The band will release their fifth album,
POET, on Halloween 2014.
[1]
Of the first two albums, the band says that they were mainly influenced by the music of Radiohead and Pink Floyd, combining them with the grandiosity of U2.[2] Of the first album, Delonge said that it would be "the best music in generations", but afterwards admitted that during this time he was addicted to painkillers.[3] Love project shows further blending of the band's musical aspirations of epic and grandiosity and the cultural revolution in the digital era.[4]
