Released December 9, 2014 Artist Angels & Airwaves Label To the Stars Records | Length 40:05 Release date 9 December 2014 | |
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Recorded June 2013- October 2014, Jupiter Sound
(San Diego, California) Producer Tom DeLonge, Aaron Rubin The Dream Walker
(2014) ...Of Nightmares
(2015) Genres Alternative rock, Space rock, Electronics in rock music, Experimental rock Similar Angels & Airwaves albums, Alternative rock albums | ||
Angels and airwaves the dream walker full album
The Dream Walker is the fifth studio album by alternative rock band Angels & Airwaves, released on December 9, 2014, through To the Stars Records. On October 31, the band released their first single from the album, "The Wolfpack", via PureVolume. On Monday, December 8, 2014, the album was streamed exclusively in its entirety with Rolling Stone. This is the first album not to feature drummer Atom Willard or guitarist David Kennedy. On May 4, 2016 the band released a new album consisting entirely of demos from The Dream Walker studio sessions including older takes and five previously unreleased tracks.
Contents
- Angels and airwaves the dream walker full album
- Angels airwaves teenagers and rituals audio
- Production
- Personnel
- Critical reception
- Commercial performance
- Songs
- References
Angels airwaves teenagers and rituals audio
Production
The album is one part of a multimedia project that will include a short film, comic books, a graphic novel, videos and animations that will all tie in to a central character known as Poet Anderson.
The first single available from The Dream Walker was "Paralyzed", released on YouTube on October 7, 2014. Several weeks later the second single, "The Wolfpack" was released on Halloween. The music video for "The Wolfpack" premiered on YouTube a week later on November 7, directed by Mark Eaton. The third and fourth singles released prior to the release of the album were "Bullets in the Wind", on November 17, and "Tunnels", on December 1.
The short film that coincides with the album, Poet Anderson: The Dream Walker, premiered on November 14 at the Toronto International Short Film Festival, for which it won Best Animation. Tom Delonge and Ilan Rubin were the only musicians to play on the album, with David Kennedy and Eddie Breckenridge not recording for unknown reasons. Kennedy and Breckenridge only appear in the music video for Tunnels.
Personnel
Credits adapted from AllMusic
Critical reception
The Dream Walker received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 66, based on 6 reviews, indicating "generally favorable" feedback. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic rated the album three out of five stars, writing that is has "more texture and dimension than Love and, ultimately, it's that expansiveness that gives the album character instead of the convoluted cross-platform narratives."
Commercial performance
The Dream Walker debuted at number 39 on the Billboard 200 with first week sales of 19,088 copies in the United States.
Songs
1Teenagers & Rituals3:53
2Paralyzed4:10
3The Wolfpack3:52