Nine (album)

Nine
Studio album by Blink-182
Publication (s)	20th September 2019
Label (s)	Columbia Records
Format (s)	CD , LP , download , MC
Genre (s)	Pop punk
Title (number)	15th
running time	41:42
occupation	Mark Hoppus : electric bass and vocals Matt Skiba : guitar and vocals Travis Barker : drums
production	John Feldmann , Tim Pagnotta , Matt Malpass, Andrew Watt, Travis Barker
chronology California (2016) Nine -
Single releases May 8, 2019 Blame It on My Youth June 21, 2019 Generational divide 1st July 2019 Happy Days July 25, 2019 Darkside September 6, 2019 I Really Wish I Hated You

Nine ( English for " Nine ") is the eighth studio album of American punk rock - band Blink-182 and was on 20 September 2019 on the label Columbia Records released. It is the band's ninth album in total, if you include the demo album Buddha , and the second studio album on which Matt Skiba took part instead of founding member Tom DeLonge .

production

Nine was mostly produced by the American music producer John Feldmann , who also produced the previous album California . Other producers involved were Tim Pagnotta , Matt Malpass, Andrew Watt and Blink-182 member Travis Barker . The recordings took place between April 2018 and June 2019.

Cover design

The album cover is kept in bright rainbow colors and shows the writing blink-182 made of fluorescent tubes .

Track list

#	title	length
1	The first time	2:26
2	Happy Days	2:59
3	Heaven	3:17
4th	Darkside	3:01
5	Blame It on My Youth	3:06
6th	Generational divide	0:49
7th	Run away	2:27
8th	Black Rain	2:46
9	I Really Wish I Hated You	3:11
10	Pin the Grenade	2:59
11	No Heart to Speak Of	3:40
12	Ransom	1:25
13	On some emo shit	3:09
14th	Hungover You	2:58
15th	Remember to Forget Me	3:29

Chart successes and singles

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Nine   DE 4th 09/27/2019 (3 weeks)   AT 8th 04/10/2019 (5 weeks)   CH 13 09/29/2019 (2 weeks)   UK 6th 03/10/2019 (3 weeks)   US 3 05/10/2019 (3 weeks)

Nine entered the German album charts at number 4 on September 27, 2019 and stayed in the top 100 for three weeks.

On May 8, 2019, the song Blame It on My Youth was released as the first single . The second release, Generational Divide , was released on June 21, before the song Happy Days followed on July 1, 2019. On July 25 and September 6, 2019, the pieces Darkside and I Really Wish I Hated You were also released. To Generational Divide and Darkside also have music videos rotated.

reception

Professional reviews
Average rating
source	rating
Metacritic	67%
More reviews
source	rating
laut.de
Rolling Stone
allmusic

Nine received mostly mediocre to positive ratings from professional music critics in the English-speaking world. The album achieved an average rating of 67% on Metacritic , based on ten reviews from English-language media.

Rinko Heidrich from laut.de rated Nine with two out of a possible five points. Above all, he complains that the band lacks creativity and that the sound has moved away from the punk rock of the previous albums. For example, “Travis Barker's chords and drum roll are known from an infinite number of Blink songs, as has the bold pop sound since the last album. This is no longer punk, but the ticket for Rock am Ring, ”whereby the musicians“ looked like embarrassing radio-pop uncles ”.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ album cover
2. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
3. ↑ Chart tracking Nine on officialcharts.de
4. ↑ Rating: metacritic.com
5. ↑ Rating: laut.de
6. ↑ Rating: Rolling Stone
7. ↑ Rating: allmusic.com