Track Listing

1. Lycanthrope
2. Baby Come On
3. When Your Heart Stops Beating
4. Little Death
5. 155
6. Lillian
7. Cliffdiving
8. Interlude
9. Weatherman
10. No, It Isn't
11. Make You Smile
12. Chapter 13

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #49282 in Music
• Released on: 2006-11-13
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics

Customer Reviews

awesome not amazing
This is a great album with some killer songs, and is quite varied musicaly, featuring many influences. Best songs on the album Lycanthrope, Lillian, Cliffdiving, 155, No it Isnt, chapter 13 and the insanely catchy title track.

Lyricaly this is Mark's finest work, with some deep and dark lyrics, along with some of a more hopeful and reminicent nature. You can tell alot of effort has gone into the songwriting aspect of this album.

Travis is great as always and the two guitarists do a stellar job, although they came into the recording process later, so i expect to hear even more from them on the next album.

The one thing lacking from this album is a defined sound for the band with such different styles and influences its hard to know who plus 44 really are sometimes. But this is also a good thing.

Overall this album is great and features some of my favourite songs well worth a listen to

Very disappointing
Tom De Longe's Angels and Airwaves record may be self indulgent and ridiculously over-elaborate in parts but at least the sound was crisp and full and it does have a few great tunes on it.

In contrast, this first effort by Hoppus since the break up of Blink would seem to back up the theory that De Longe really was the bigger creative influence of the 2. The most annoying aspect of this album is the production.

Blink fans will know how limited a singer Hoppus is but with Jerry Finn on board from Enema of the State onwards, he has always made them sound great. It seems Hoppus may have had more of an influence this time around as the sound is muddy and flat, the vocals particularly so, and at times absoultely dreadful as in the harmony parts in "No it Isnt". Actually the vocal harmonies on this record are poor in general.

First single "When your heart stops beating" is standard fare. Not even Barker's infamous drumming can raise the quality level here either. For a band who claimed to be making something resembling originality and/or electronic, this listener found precious little of that, and after 1 listen I'm not compelled to go back.

Maybe things might have been better had Carol Heller stayed. Next.

Spot on (Better than the AVA album)
+44's debut feels like Mark and Travis are picking up where Blink 182 left off... except not.

It's got the trademark punk-rock/pop-punk stylings that Blink had, but there are electronic undertones and to be honest... catchier songs than Blink 182's last release.

For someone like me who enjoys a range of music (metal, punk rock, pop, electronica, ska...) this is a great up-tempo album with some good upbeat tracks.

Songs like 'When Your Heart Stops Beating', 'Lycanthrope' and 'No It Isn't' stand out most on the first listen. Some songs don't make as much of an impression at first, but they'll grow on you with time!

This is a great debut from Mark and Travis's new project and I'm sure they'll do very well with their next album.

Overall, this is a brilliant feel-good, upbeat cd that's got quite a few tracks that would sound great blasting from a car whilst speeding down a motorway. If you liked Blink 182's last release, you should definatley get this!!