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But they also come after middling, predictable punk tracks like Behind Your Walls and Army Of One, or a shoehorned joke song like We Never Have Sex Anymore, encapsulating the lack of focus on a centra idea thatвЂ™s plagued The Offspring for years. Hassan Chop might be the most outwardly visceral track here, and for as generally unnecessary as its inclusion feels (not to mention riding on the coattails of the Five Finger Death Punch cover), thereвЂ™s enough baked-in emotion to Gone Away to where its remake can be justified. ThereвЂ™ll be glancing blows taken at politics and the state of society, but nothing that could really be considered commentary, where The Offspring will generally circle around the idea of struggle in the modern world before diluting it further with a host of comedy tracks and veritable cast-offs.

ThereвЂ™s a perceived grasp of modern fury illustrated by the opening pair of This Is Not Utopia and the title track, but as the album unfurls and its ideas become no less pointed or centralised, itвЂ™s not in service to anything but itself. And yet, part of why Let The Bad Times Roll refuses to hold any sort of water is the fact that, thatвЂ™s about as far as The Offspring go. ThereвЂ™s clearly an acknowledgment made of the turbulence of modern times, and how the cloud of darkness only seems to descend further and further, which is probably the absolute broadest stroke of social commentary that a punk band can make.

Perhaps the most glaring example of that comes in The OffspringвЂ™s vanity around being a punk band, and how the particular course correction on Let The Bad Times Roll is so evidently geared in that direction. ItвЂ™s as clear-cut as an attempt to regain good will can be, but when thereвЂ™s barely an attempt made to hide that intention, it feels flimsy and structurally weak at the end of the day. In truth, Let The Bad Times Roll is basically exactly what was expected from this band in 2021, where dredging the well of old ideas that found their audience in the first place just feels like a more tired variation of what was, with the usual Offspring jokes and silly moments throw in accordingly. ItвЂ™s probably better than Days Go By on a net level, though that can primarily be attributed to a lack of truly embarrassing lows instead of anything to majorly elevate it. ItвЂ™s not even like The Offspring themselves are doing much to convince otherwise either, given that the culmination of nearly a decadeвЂ™s worth of waiting produces so little of an emotional response, positive or negative. On the eve of it actually coming out then, that nonplussed attitude couldnвЂ™t feel more solidly crystallised, as if the general consensus already is that The Offspring are so far gone at this point that thereвЂ™s isnвЂ™t much to really be excited about. Talk of The OffspringвЂ™s new album over the last couple of years has felt like a placeholder for release calendars pencilled in out of absolute necessity, as a speculated new release that no one really cared about but was mentioned out of obligation for their residual size. A new album from The Offspring in 2021 is more a curiosity than something to actively be excited about, but even that might be overselling where Let The Bad Times Roll is actually coming from. ItвЂ™s really no wonder that The Offspring barely feel like a presence in modern rock anymore then, having already been demoted to a singles band in recent years, but also having a level of inactivity that implies a band who really arenвЂ™t bothered anymore.

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Even so though, at least Green Day have maintained an amount of prolificness to back themselves up The OffspringвЂ™s last album was in 2012 with Days Go By, meaning that the latest full indication of their career trajectory was middling radio-rock and, in the impossibly ill-advised single choice Cruising California (BumpinвЂ™ In My Trunk), a slap in the face to anyone expecting this band to pay at least some acknowledgement to their roots.

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Despite coming up at roughly the same time, The Offspring have arguably never felt closer to Green Day than they do now, as two вЂ90s punk veterans who have no idea how to keep up their momentum so far past their prime.