is a
Rise Against album. In all of their jangly, closely-adhered-to chord progressions, how they structure their songs, high tempo palm-mutes and strums, backing-vocal chants and harmonies they’ve been doing since before I was even in my teens, and
Bill Stevenson’s as-per-usual crisp production detailing the record. I expected all of these ticked boxes
long before I pressed play on ‘
Nowhere Generation’; it’s just how
Rise Against are. Though on this latest entry in their lengthy career, it feels the most fired up it’s been in a fucking decade. While I’m not fully in love with it, I’m gonna take that win!