"Without the disappearance of those sessions, we wouldn’t have gotten American Idiot, a powerful force of nature, Green Day’s strongest album as a whole, and a record that vitalized a generation born into a world of unbridled political chaos."

"Despite taking some time to get out of their shells upon entering the Berkeley studio they would call home for almost a month, that anxious energy lent itself to what makes Dookie such an incredible album so many years later."

There are five stages of grief: anger, denial, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. But Here We Are works through these feelings in ten, each step more emotional and impactful than the last.

One of the best collections of songs that the four-piece Chicago act have written in their two-decade career, and the one that they’ve been meant to write all along.

On I Want To Disappear, they embrace the uncomfortable, and the results are strikingly good.

“…no collaboration with Watt has proven to be a better match than Hackney Diamonds, The Rolling Stones’ twenty-fourth full-length album and arguably their best work in decades.”

With fourteen songs that channel feelings of heartbreak, solitary confinement, and depression, Kahan has brought forth his best material, showing that sometimes all you need is a guitar and your voice to get your point across.

It feels good to exorcise your demons. Blink-182 has made an art out of it.