Are you ready to be excited?
Offspring have announced the release date of their upcoming album Rage & Fall, Rise & Grace (Does anyone else get the feeling that they’ve ripped off the name from the Foo Fighters last album?).
It’s been a long time between album’s (5 years) but their new record is set for release on June 17th. Offspring have stated that each of their records have always reflected the state of punk at the time. I guess it was a real bad year when Splinter was release, but it will be interesting to see what their interpretation will be this time around.
After seeing them briefly at The Soundwave Festival, they managed to impress me and for some reason I’m actually pretty excited about their latest album.
Speaking of new releases, Thrice’s ambitious Alchemy Index project will soon be completed with the release of their final volumes, Air & Earth next week on the 15th.
While volumes 1 & 2 (Fire & Water) were a little disappointing, I’ve given Air a quick listen & so far have been impressed. This time they’ve ditched most of the slumber inducing electronic sounds heard on Water and they’ve concentrated on real instruments that deliver a great atmosphere to the album (Loving the piano on Digging My Own Grave).
They’ve currently streaming the whole two volumes on their myspace site, so make sure you give it a listen.
Are you crazy? You are looking forward to an Offspring release?