Let the Bad Times Roll by The Offspring

Let the Bad Times Roll, the Offspring's tenth studio album, finally surfaced on April 16, 2021, nine years after Days Go By, the longest wait between records in the band's career. Bob Rock produced it, it was their first release on Concord, and the sessions dragged from the summer of 2013 into 2020, with songs recorded and re-recorded in one studio after another while the band split from Columbia, hunted for a new label, shuffled its lineup and then watched the pandemic shove the release back again.

It's the first Offspring album without co-founder Greg K., fired in 2018, so Dexter Holland played the bass himself, even though new man Todd Morse already showed up in the videos. Holland and Noodles still hammer out the snotty, hook-first punk they've always traded in, and the title track rolls along on a swaggering sing-along stomp. It was the second and final album with Pete Parada on drums.

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