LA’s legendary punk heroes Bad Religion are streaming their new album True North in its entirety starting today, in front of their album release this Friday. The bandwill be making their first ever appearance on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon this January 30th.
Stream the new record in its entirety here: https://themusic.com.au/listen/all/2013/01/21/bad-religion-true-north/
With True North, Bad Religion deliberately revisits and refines the fast melodic Southern California sound they helped to define on albums such as Suffer, No Control and Recipe For Hate. In a world still mired by rampant anti-intellectualism, inequality and oppression, the bands signature brand of sonically charged humanist dissent seems as relevant as ever.
We went back to our original mission statement of short concise bursts of melody and thought, co-writer and guitarist Brett Gurewitz explains. The intent was to record stripped down punk songs without sacrificing any conceptual density.
Produced by the band and Joe Barresi,True North celebrates the power of cogent punk in the face of personal pain and adversity. It is one of the bands most emotionally accessible albums to date. Beneath the bristling guitars and surging drums exists one of the most cathartic works of the bands career. I think working within certain restrictions took away the mental aspect and let us devote more attention to conveying feeling, co-writer and guitarist Greg Graffin says. We all go through pain and the best elements of punk give us hope in those dark times.
