To the Stars... Demos, Odds and Ends

A few weeks after DeLonge announced his departure from the pop punk band Blink-182, through social media he expressed his interest in releasing demos he wrote for a potential Blink-182 album. The album To the Stars was formally announced on February 28, 2015, and DeLonge later elaborated that the album was one of four albums he would be releasing in 2015; he intended to release two solo albums and two Angels & Airwaves albums, but by the end of the year only the solo album and the Angels & Airwaves EP ...Of Nightmares had been released. ==Promotion==

Leading up to the album's release, DeLonge released several songs for online streaming with accompanying music or lyric videos. He first released an online stream for the track "New World" on March 10, 2015. A lyric video for the track "The Invisible Parade" was released on March 24, and the song itself may have been inspired by DeLonge's brother who served in Iraq as a Naval lieutenant. On April 7, an online stream for the track "Circle-Jerk-Pit" was released, and a few weeks later a music video for the track was released on April 21. The official music video for "New World" was released on April 2, 2015. and Billboard said that it is "hard not to think of this as an eff you to his old band, as he packs up his stratocaster and hits the streets." ==Critical reception==

To the Stars received mixed reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a rating determined by a "weighted average" of reviews from mainstream critics, the album received a score of 49, based on 4 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Kerrang! deemed it "a distinctly mixed bag". ==Track listing==

• "New World" – 3:34 • "An Endless Summer" – 4:09 • "Suburban Kings" – 4:10 • "The Invisible Parade" – 3:29 • "Circle-Jerk-Pit" – 1:59 • "Landscapes" – 2:14 • "Animals" – 3:41 • "Golden Showers in the Golden State" – 2:35 ==Personnel==

Credits for To the Stars... Demos, Odds and Ends adapted from liner notes. • Tom DeLonge – guitars, vocals, bass guitar, piano, synth strings, production • Brooks Wackerman – drums • Aaron Rubin – production, bass guitar on "An Endless Summer", recording engineer, mixing engineer • Brian Gardner – mastering engineer • Tom Lord-Alge – mixing engineer on "Suburban Kings" ==Charts==