Album Review: Father of All… by Green Day

What the hell are Green Day doing?   The ugly-ass cover; the unnecessary profanity in the title; the ridiculously short runtime (26 minutes!); singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong's ridiculously high falsetto — none of it adds up. There's even a conspiracy theory that says that Father of All Motherfuckers, the 13th Green Day album, is a giant middle finger to their longtime label, Reprise, and that they plan to go indie after they fulfill their contractual obligations.   Taken on its own, the title track and first single certainly ….

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Following a chaotic sprawl of messy concept albums in 2012, Green Day returned to form in 2016 with the serviceable Revolution Radio. Hearing the band get back to their three-chord punk roots was refreshing, if the songs sometimes leaned generic. With their 13th studio album, Father of All..., the trio take an aggressive about-face into high-energy glam punk with the most danceable songs they've produced in their 30-plus-year run.

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Green Day have spent the last decade trying to shake the burden of importance. The trio's 2004 smash American Idiot didn't just reinvigorate their career, it elevated them from fading '90s alt-rock holdovers to a big-tent attraction with voice-of-their-generation prestige. Sixteen years later, it's still astounding to think that Green Day somehow recorded one of the defining rock albums of the George W.

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In the last decade, they've tried to reconstruct themselves through triple-part albums, side projects, monikers and mining back into what got them here in the first place, which leads us to Father of All Motherfuckers. Given it's their thirteenth album, the scope of room for them to play with has decreased significantly since expectations will always be high. And on Father...

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Throughout their long and fruitful time as a band, Green Day have achieved far more than most could dream of. But while they're still undeniably one of the great rock acts of their generation - proven time and time again by their huge live shows and festival headline slots - their more recent records just haven't hit the mark. What is brilliant about new album 'Father Of All…', is that despite it marking their thirteenth (!) full-length, they're still pushing themselves to experiment: here, no two songs sound the same.

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Billie Joe Armstrong is 47 years old. When he turned 18, George H. W. Bush was the president, the Internet was not widely used, and the number one song in the U.S. was "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You?" by Michael Bolton. This is important because Green Day strives desperately on Father of ….

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G iven that George W Bush's presidency so enraged Green Day they recorded 2004's American Idiot in reaction, one could be forgiven for thinking that Father of All Motherfuckers might be a nod to the Trump era. Yet their 13th album is startlingly apolitical, more concerned with youthful angst and romance - or, as frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has said, "the lifestyle of not giving a fuck". Which is all very well, but there is something wearying about hearing a 47-year‑old man singing the none-more-tautologous I Was a Teenage Teenager.

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In 1994 Green Day seemingly blasted out of nowhere with an explosion of guitars coupled with disenfranchised lyrics that helped make a generation of teenagers fall in love with punk. Since those halcyon days of teenagerdom the band have gone political, released a trilogy of albums in one year, and now with their new album 'Father of All…' have gone full circle to where it all began. Almost.

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The Lowdown: There are hints that 2020 could be the year that rock and roll and guitar bands make their triumphant return. No doubt the nostalgia wave has already hit for famous rock bands of the past. Just ask My Chemical Romance fans, who managed to sell out four nights at The Forum in Los Angeles in near-record time (and their entire tour in six hours).

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