{"id":9254,"date":"2023-06-03T16:27:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T15:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipamusic.co.uk\/?p=9254"},"modified":"2023-06-05T17:34:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T16:34:53","slug":"rancid-remind-us-why-theyre-punk-legends-with-10th-album-tomorrow-never-comes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipamusic.co.uk\/?p=9254","title":{"rendered":"Rancid remind us why they’re punk legends with 10th album Tomorrow Never Comes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

ALBUM REVIEW: Rancid – Tomorrow Never Comes (Epitaph Records)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Rancid have forged a reputation over the last 30 years as one of the best and most influential punk bands of the modern era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tomorrow Never Comes<\/em> is their 10th studio album, but their first since 2017’s Trouble Maker<\/em> – six years which represents their longest gap between releases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of the members have been busy with other projects – guitarist Lars Frederiksen with The Old Firm Casuals, bassist Matt Freeman with Charger, and frontman Tim Armstrong with Transplants and as The Interrupters’ producer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here, they seem in a hurry to make up for lost time, blazing through 16 songs in less than 29 minutes, making this their shortest album yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s produced by Epitaph label founder and Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz, who’s worked on all but two of their albums, and he captures Rancid’s signature East Bay sound perfectly.<\/p>\n\n\n

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As a band they’re tight as a gnat’s chuff, and there’s not an ounce of fat on these songs; not one makes it to the three-minute mark, 10 of them don’t make two minutes, and one doesn’t make it to 60 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s hardly a hint of ska, rockabilly or anything else here; it’s an out-and-out punk rock record, much more akin to their first couple of albums, 1993’s Rancid <\/em>and 1994’s Let’s Go<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They come tearing out of the traps with Tomorrow Never Comes<\/em>, with the full-throttle title track setting a tempo that never eases. At 2:25 it’s one of the longest songs here, and also one of the best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The classic hard-riffing sound that Rancid are known is present and correct, and when you add Branden Steineckert’s pounding drums and the astonishing bass work of Matt Freeman – for me the best four-stringer in punk – you see why they have such a winning formula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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