DeLonge took to Instagram to announce the album news saying, "Rehearsals start today� And yes there will be a new album #SorryForTheWait #Blink."

"It always happens when the three of us are together in a room," Mark Hoppus told Kerrang (via NME) last August. "Because when [we're not touring], Tom lives in San Diego, Travis [Barker] lives in Los Angeles and I live in London, so we don't really talk all that much.