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Green Day is an American punk/rock band formed in the East Bay of California in 1987 by lead vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong together with bassist and backing vocalist Mike Dirnt. For most of the band's career, they have been a power trio with drummer Tré Cool, who replaced John Kiffmeyer in 1990 before the recording of the band's second studio album, Kerplunk (1991). Before taking its current name in 1989, Green Day was called Blood Rage, then Sweet Children. Read more on Last.fm
This is the first album Green Day has released since 2000’s underrated Warning that isn’t a rock opera. On paper, that sounded great. The result is, at times, wonderfully catchy and youthful. At others, its almost embarrassingly “just ok”. There are two more albums in this trilogy coming down the wire. Pray they got the best tunes.
The only saving grace of this horrendously unthoughtful effort is that Green Day’s veteran status prevents them from making anything truly awful. The production is nice and Billie Joe sounds as good as ever—it’s just too bad that the sound of Green Day flippantly riding their success is indistinguishable from three privileged teenagers in a band assuming they embody the punk aesthetic by default.