The Dream Walker is the fifth studio album by alternative rock band Angels & Airwaves, released on December 9, 2014, through To the Stars.

On May 4, 2016, the band released a new album consisting entirely of demos from The Dream Walker studio sessions including older takes and five previously unreleased tracks.

[3] Coming into recording with Rubin as the band's new drummer, DeLonge wanted to "do something that is a left turn from what people know of Angels and Airwaves," while also being eager to explore the concept of dreams for a long time.

[4] Following the Love project, he felt that many of the songs had begun to sound the same, and wanted to take a major shift in style by bringing in new people for the songwriting and production.

Ilan is the kind of guy that’ll sit there and read a manual until 4 in the morning on how to create his own synthesizer sound through a bunch of oscillators and I’m the kind of guy that’ll throw a bunch of paint on a canvas and go, ‘Wow, that’s fucking cool!’ so we’re polar opposites and I think that’s why we became a really good pairing.” - Tom DeLonge[7]Much of this recording process was documented for a video series on the band's YouTube channel.

[7] The Dream Walker was a part of a multimedia project titled Poet Anderson, which also included a comic book, short film, novel, and the band's following EP ...Of Nightmares.