…Honor Is All We Know by Rancid

...Honor Is All We Know, Rancid's eighth studio album, hit the racks on Epitaph on October 27, 2014, five years after Let the Dominoes Fall. The wait wasn't for lack of effort: work began in 2011 with a 2012 release in mind, but the road, a stack of new songs and the members' own side projects kept pushing it back, and it took three years to get over the line.

It's only the second record from the current lineup, with Tim Armstrong and Lars Frederiksen on guitars and vocals, Matt Freeman on bass and vocals and Branden Steineckert behind the kit, and it plays like a band that knows exactly who it is: fast, tight, shout-along punk with the Berkeley grit still under its fingernails. "Evil's My Friend" is the one that barrelled onto the countdowns.

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