2023-07-07 17:31:30
by Oliver on July 7, 2023 in Album
Twenty years have passed Indestructible – and thus probably the unchangeable last real one Rancid-Classic – gone. Nevertheless: More instant catchy tunes than on Tomorrow Never Comes the punk rock institution hasn’t had to offer since then.
The joy of playing fits as always, but this time the melodies and hooks are more catchy and more directly igniting than on Honor is All We KnowTrouble Maker and Let the Dominoes Fall – the rating with the fan glasses will be even easier than on the direct predecessors, which nevertheless have new, lower expectations of the output of Rancid have established.
Meanwhile, the quartet itself does not waste a second of the total playing time of only 29 minutes and never exhausts the simple catchiness of their 16 songs excessively, through the compactness they even more conceal the manageable sustainability of the compositions, which in one piece as well as a not really filling collection on small, conditionally nutritious, but tasty bites, and have exchanged the anger and aggressiveness of the past for a not necessarily multi-layered, trendy accessibility.
Even if Rancid continue to be the only punk rockers out there who can still do it: not bringing a ska number this time isn’t a catastrophe either.
In any case, the potential singles step in with an agreeable nonchalance. The title song briskly bawls its crooked chorus with a chanting background, symptomatically simply knitted the first hit before Devil in Disguise almost raging in nursery rhyme lands and the anthemic singalong by New American provokes a devoted sense of community. The Bloody & Violent History rumbles smugly, never wants to get out of his ear canals once more, and pulls forward competently It’s a Road to Righteousness is just as routinely fresh as Drop Dead Innwhere also the reliability of Eddie the Butcher good.
In the highlight that goes beyond the strong bass track Prisoners Song and the one rocking with steaming snap Magnificent Rogue throws Tomorrow Never Comes even secret contenders for the B-side of Greatest Hits. But at least two new potential favorite songs of the combo.
Fill without real failure Rancid the one in between with great standards: Mud, Blood, & Gold recites as a group narrating with metal flavor; Don’t Make Me Do It is a 58 second, straight step on the gas pedal and Live Forever nice hedonism that doesn’t hurt anyone; One Way Ticket cranks its catchy chorus in an exemplary, simple and latently interchangeable way, and does it like the uninspired one that suffers from sluggish vocals Hellbound Train It doesn’t matter that you’ve been served all that better. Nevertheless: Read the track list – and you’ll have every song in your head once more following the second listen at the latest.
Only that Tomorrow Never Comes with the whimsical standards Hear Us Out and When the Smoke Clears ends a bit underwhelming, the Californians’ tenth studio album threatens to sell a bit short – but if it takes a whopping six years until their return, it will certainly be manageable.
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