The Offspring - Let The Bad Times Roll (Album Review) Friday, 23 April 2021
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What kind of self-respecting punk band takes nine years to make a new album? Were they bereft of motivation? Suffering from creative impotence? Struggling to get back to their best after a run of patchy efforts? Thankfully, such questions concerning this long overdue return from The Offspring are well answered on a comeback that delivers exactly what we want from these pretty fly, now middle-aged, white guys.
Laboured over in fits and starts with producer Bob Rock, while dealing with the acrimonious departure of original bassist Greg K, some pesky label issues and the release’s inevitable delay thanks to the pandemic, is it any wonder we feared ‘Let The Bad Times Roll’ might be an unintentionally appropriate title for a record that threatened to be overthought, overcooked and lacking commitment?
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The Offspring announce first album in almost a decade, Let The Bad Times Roll
BANG Showbiz 2/25/2021 Bang Showbiz
The Offspring have announced their first studio album in almost a decade.
The Pretty Fly For A White Guy hitmakers - comprising Dexter Holland, Noodles, Pete Parada, and new bassist Todd Morse - will release Let The Bad Times Roll on April 16, and have given fans a taste of what s to come with the release of the album title track.
The follow-up to 2012 s Days Go By was recorded over a number of years at various locations, including their Huntington Beach, California studio.
Hear Offspring s Let the Bad Times Roll, From First Album in Nine Years
Album Let the Bad Times Roll will roll in this spring
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The Offspring return to their signature mix of guileless pop-punk and forked-tongue irony on “Let the Bad Times Roll,” the title track off their upcoming record, which will be their first in nearly a decade.
Although the title puns off the Cars, the track starts off sounding a bit more like the Police, as Dexter Holland mewls the song title over acoustic guitar before the band settles into a hard rock groove and he sings to his lover, “Let me know what you decide, apathy or suicide,” as he sardonically tries to make the relationship work. The full album is due out on April 16th.