""These recordings started out as a fun exercise fueled by the love and fandom I have for Blink-182 and the record 'Enema Of The State,'" Diaz wrote in an Instagram post."
""I wanted to see if I could run these songs and let the nostalgia drive my memory for the lyrics and tear through a punky acoustic arrangement. No planning, no overthinking, no analyzing allowed, just ripping into the songs," she wrote. "It was pure joy with no clear intention of releasing this project until recently.""
""This record is about pretty much the same things we said on the last one," said Hoppus. "Which was [that] girls hurt your feelings and free-form masturbation.""
Madi Diaz recorded a full track-by-track cover of Blink-182’s 1999 album Enema of the State, releasing it as Enema of the Garden State. All proceeds from the cover album will go to the Defending Our Neighbors Fund to help immigrants secure fair access to legal assistance. The recordings were made in a New Jersey studio during sessions for Diaz’s recent album Fatal Optimist. Diaz approached the songs as a nostalgic, unplanned exercise, arranging punk songs into acoustic, stripped-down interpretations. The project contrasts with Diaz’s usual folky singer-songwriter material and echoes the original album’s irreverent themes.
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