This is my first review and I decided to write it about my favorite band... Rancid.
Now, despite the various criticisms regarding them allegedly selling out, I consider this one of their best albums. Sure, they haven't offered anything new because the album "Indestructible" echoes all their previous works.
The album opens with the title track, "Indestructible," a fairly energetic song in the Rancid style, which perhaps vaguely reminds us of Rancid 1993. It continues with "Fall Back Down," the only song with a new style, but it remains, in my opinion, a rather commercial song, yet musically acceptable, with an organ background that accompanies us for almost the entire album.
"Red Hot Moon," is a track that comes directly from "Life Won't Wait," Ska, catchy, with a rap part by Rob Aston. The song talks about the life of a Punk girl named KC.
Other standout songs include the hardcore of "Out Of Control" that takes us straight back to RANCID 2000, the outrageously angry "David Courtney" (you just need to hear the words it starts with to understand what I’m talking about), the splendid but unusual "Arrested In Shanghai," which is hard to fully grasp where they pulled it from, but it's a good one. The only other standout song is "Otherside," dedicated to the tragic passing of Lars Frederiksen's brother.
The other songs are all very good, mind you, I'm not saying they suck, far from it, but they stand out less, like the Reggae of "Stand Your Ground," the energy of "Travis Bickle," "Start Now," "Ghost Band," "Born Frustrated," "Roadblock" and "Spirit Of '87."
The album "Indestructible" still remains, in my opinion, one of their best works regardless of the fact that they supposedly sold out, also because they will never be aired on MTV with the frequency they air BLINK 182.
I don't know how it went for a first review, I hope I used the subjunctives well and didn't make too many grammatical errors... Until the next review!!
Punk remains punk... in its simplicity, in its being direct and hitting you with songs that often don’t even reach three minutes.
An album poor in gems, not very fierce but with mostly beautiful songs and some adrenaline-pumping hits of healthy old-school Punk.
The final result is decidedly positive because you find within it every musical influence of the band and all the sonic solutions previously experimented and proposed.
This Indestructible is a great album that can be fully appreciated precisely because it manages to change pace from song to song, never getting boring by alternating relaxed moments with others of pure adrenaline.