![]() Talk of The Offspring’s new album over the last couple of years has felt like a placeholder for release calendars pencilled in out of absolute necessity, as a speculated new release that no one really cared about but was mentioned out of obligation for their residual size. ![]() A new album from The Offspring in 2021 is more a curiosity than something to actively be excited about, but even that might be overselling where Let The Bad Times Roll is actually coming from. It’s really no wonder that The Offspring barely feel like a presence in modern rock anymore then, having already been demoted to a singles band in recent years, but also having a level of inactivity that implies a band who really aren’t bothered anymore. Even so though, at least Green Day have maintained an amount of prolificness to back themselves up The Offspring’s last album was in 2012 with Days Go By, meaning that the latest full indication of their career trajectory was middling radio-rock and, in the impossibly ill-advised single choice Cruising California (Bumpin’ In My Trunk), a slap in the face to anyone expecting this band to pay at least some acknowledgement to their roots. ![]() Despite coming up at roughly the same time, The Offspring have arguably never felt closer to Green Day than they do now, as two ‘90s punk veterans who have no idea how to keep up their momentum so far past their prime.
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