Alas, it took only five songs for the elephant in the amphitheater to rear its ugly head. Though I vividly recall favoring Alkaline Trio in high school because they were "more serious" and less entrenched in the boy-band schtick that endeared Blink to the giggling cheerleaders I loathed so much, the acquisition of Alkaline frontman Matt Skiba to fill the gaping hole left by deposed cofounder Tom Delonge—who presumably refused to continue with the band because he's certain his time is best spent uncovering the truth about UFOs—is unsatisfactory. Skiba is a passable singer in his own right, but his Delonge impression was downright horrendous at times. Case in point being "Down," a somber mid-tempo cut from the middle of the group's 2003 self-titled record that was almost unrecognizable until the chorus. Between that and a flaccid rendition of "Miss You," it was almost as if you could feel the goodwill longtime fans had gradually built toward Blink's most ambitious and divise record evaporate into the night air with every elongated vowel and atonal drift of one consonant sound into another.