Reception
"Heart's All Gone" was the second song to debut from the band's sixth studio album, Neighborhoods. [3] In contrast to the debut of the first single, "Up All Night", from Neighborhoods — on influential Los Angeles rock station KROQ — "Heart's All Gone" was released to a much more subdued fanfare, with a simple link from Hoppus' Google+ profile. [5] The link revealed a special site (www.heartsallgone.com), titled and instructing users to "Command the A", by pressing the command (or control) button plus the A key on their keyboards. [2] Doing so would reveal the lyrics and an MP3 download of the song. [5] The song was one of the first the band performed from Neighborhoods, [1] alongside "After Midnight", "Ghost on the Dance Floor" and "Up All Night", and was debuted on the first night of the band's 10th Annual Honda Civic Tour, at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, New Jersey. [7] [8]
James Montgomery of MTV News commended the song's "breakneck guitars, yelped vocals and cascading drums," making reference to his own personal anticipation for Neighborhoods: "From the sound of things, the new Blink-182 may very well be adept at everything [...] Sort of only makes the anticipation that much greater." [5] Jon Dolan of Rolling Stone gave the song three stars out of five, writing, "The second taste of Blink's comeback LP reboots their bubblegum punk, setting a post-breakup bitchfest to shrink-wrapped hardcore that's pitched perfectly between the mosh pit and the food court." [9] BBC Music described the song as "blisteringly fast," commending Barker's drum work on the song. [10] Thomas Nassiff of AbsolutePunk called the song "instantly accessible," noting that, for fans, "[the song] the high-energy pop-punk track we all wanted." [11] Kyle Ryan of The A.V. Club referenced it as "a stripped-down punk song that sounds like late-'90s Blink in the best way. It’s also one of the few songs where Mark Hoppus sings lead." [12]
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Mark Allan Hoppus is an American musician and record producer. He is the co-lead vocalist, co-founder, and bassist for the rock band Blink-182 and the only member to appear on every album.
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