Angels and Airwaves - Everything's Magic

On first listen to Everything's Magic, you could be forgiven for thinking that you'd stumbled upon a particularly unfortunate cover of The Cure's Close To Me. It starts off with the same synthetic drums and then a note perfect rendition of that oh so famous bass line kicks in. As it wears on, it begins to sound far too much like the ridiculous pseudo-80s pontifications of AFI and then, just to round it off by ripping off himself, Tom DeLonge lifts a riff from Blink 182's Anthem. Make no mistake – this is as glib as it gets. [Neil Ferguson]