Days Go By by The Offspring

Days Go By, the Offspring's ninth studio album, came out on Columbia on June 26, 2012, and it took the long road to get there. Work started in 2009 with a 2010 release in mind, but the band kept touring and kept writing, and the sessions sprawled over three years and half a dozen studios, most of them in California with side trips to Hawaii and Canada, before Bob Rock's production was finally finished in March 2012. It was the first Offspring album with drummer Pete Parada, who plays on four songs, and the last with co-founding bassist Greg K.

What came out is a grab bag. The title track is an earnest, arena-sized chugger, "Cruising California (Bumpin' in My Trunk)" is a goofy summer novelty they sent out first in most of the world, and the band even dusted off "Dirty Magic" from 1992's Ignition for a do-over. It was also their farewell to Columbia.

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