Let the Dominoes Fall by Rancid

Let the Dominoes Fall, Rancid's seventh studio album, came out through Hellcat/Epitaph on June 2, 2009 in America, a day after Europe got it, and it ended a wait of nearly six years since Indestructible. The band had gone on hiatus in 2004 and kept quiet until January 2008, when word came that they were recording with Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz producing. They wrapped it up in February 2009.

It was also the first Rancid album with Branden Steineckert on drums, in for founding drummer Brett Reed, alongside Tim Armstrong and Lars Frederiksen on guitars and vocals and Matt Freeman on bass and vocals. The Berkeley crew sound rested and hungry: gang choruses, ska skank, Freeman's bass running circles around everything, and Armstrong's slurred holler as ragged as ever. "Last One to Die" is the pick of the bunch, a fist-in-the-air sprint that wastes not a second.

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