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The Offspring, Let The Bad Times Roll. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The die is loaded against us, for whatever humanity does now will surely not be enough to stop the rot of our physical environment’s destruction, and for own spirituality to betray us, to let us wallow in the despair of the imagined realms of ownership, greed and possession. It is a wonder that a person in a freshly laundered tuxedo, holding a cigar tightly between forefinger and thumb, and sporting a cynical, but meaningful smile, has not as yet picked up a megaphone and declared to one and all with a voice that inspires the carney and the ringmaster, “Let The Bad Times Roll”.

The Offspring, Days Go By. Album Review.

Originally published by L.S. Media. June 28th 2012.

L.S. Media Rating ***

Days Go By is the new album by American Punk Rock band The Offspring and never has an album title felt more apt in terms of how long fans of a group may have felt for its delivery.

This ninth studio album by the band has been creeping and crawling along and was in danger of becoming out of date by the time it finally hit the general public. Patience is sometimes its own reward, especially in music and the pay offs in what the audience hears can be worth every moment, every single agonising second between one album and the next.