AllRespect.com // Spin posts "21st Century Breakdown" review

Posted on 2009-05-02 03:00:12
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Source: http://www.punknews.org/article/33349

Spin has posted one of the first reviews of Green Day's upcoming album, 21st Century Breakdown, due out May 15, 2009:

Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tré Cool push Idiot's conceits even further on 21st Century Breakdown, a slick, class-obsessed, 70-minute, 18-song, three-act cycle that trades Bush-era indignation for Obama-era resignation. [...] There was humor in Green Day's vitriol last time around, and that's sorely missed here.
There's some stretching stylistically [...] if the Cars did a tune about impending nuclear winter, it might sound like "Last of the American Girls." [...] for an album-length rock opera about staving off the end of days, 21st Century Breakdown feels terribly comfortable.

Check out the review here.

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