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Offspring - Rise And Fall, Rage And Grace
| Latimes | YOU EXPECT a band to show some new twists when it returns from a four-year absence, and in its first album since 2003, the Offspring obliges. "Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace" (released today) has plenty of brisk, sharp rock, both punk and beyond, but there are also atmospheric interludes and moments of folkish, emo-like reflection.
The veteran Orange County band also has a new producer, Bob Rock, who's moved over from the Metallica account and so might be held responsible for the ominous, metal-tinged ballad "A Lot Like Me."...full text |
| | Villagevoice | | These dudes were certainly never feeling the wistful teenage nostalgia of Bryan Adams's "Summer of '69"—over 20 years, the Offspring became experts at penning dark accounts of modern youth set to buzzsaw guitars and a rapid-fire beat. But unlike their contemporaries in Green Day and Rancid, the SoCal quartet surfaced as a punk band largely without a punk attitude. There was scant bratty posturing and middle-finger fanfare; instead, they focused on peer violence, desperate alienation, and the seemingly unavoidable corrosion of youth. Forget "If the Kids Are United"—now you gotta keep 'em separated. Sad stuff....full text |
| | Nowtoronto | | Sadly, after their initial run of popularity during the pop-?punk explosion of the mid-?90s alongside bands like Green Day, the Offspring have done a dandy job of pigeonholing themselves as a kind of goofy frat house favourite because of asinine mega-?hits like Pretty Fly (For A White Guy). While that doesn’t mean they’re incapable of doing something more substantial, they might have to try a little harder to convince us....full text |
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