The Offspring - Rise And Fall, Rage And Grace

Columbia

Aging punks are the saddest sight in rock. The disenfranchised youth of yesteryear all grown up with a major attitude adjustment – it’s enough to make emo kids weep. Well, listen up, because The Offspring were punk in the early Nineties, but the ensuing decade-plus means they look more like working stiffs than youth warriors with their eye on the punk prize. The Offspring’s eighth record sees them march down the same lonely road as Green Day. Stadium rock with a nose ring never looked so conformist – or sounded so lame. From staccato opener ‘Half-Truism’ to the pseudo-empathetic ‘Kristy, Are You Doing OK?’, the original pranksters are sounding more like the offspring of Def Leppard and Plain White T’s. This’ll be their titular ‘fall’, then. Kirstie McCrum

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DOWNLOAD: ‘TRUST IN YOU’, ‘STUFF IS MESSED UP’, ‘RISE AND FALL’.
FOR FANS OF: GREEN DAY, GUNS N’ ROSES.

Issue #52 - Very Bro-some

Featuring Panama Kings, ASIWYFA, an investigation into DIY touring, details of what over 25 of the finest NI bands are up to in 2009 and much more.