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It's not that the Offspring sound behind the times on their eighth album, Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace--it's that they sound disconnected from it.
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There are potent moments like the rise-and-fall ballad 'Kristy, Are You Doing Okay?' and the fierce 'Nothingtown,' but 'Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace' sounds more like a tentative step in the Offspring's new direction.
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Sounding closer to their more earnest Smash days, the songs are snappy to-the-point SoCal punk, albeit with a more polished sheen.
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The album's latter half contains some welcome pop moments--'Nothingtown' and 'Let's Hear It for Rock Bottom' make going nowhere in life sound like hot fun--but the standout melodies often take a back seat to the diatribes, and Holland doesn't back up his disaffection with many good reasons to rally behind him.
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UncutFive years in gestation, these revved-up anthems are fuctional enough, but none have the catchy ska-punk bounce of the band's late 1990s commercial peak. [Sep 2008, p.99]
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The patchwork of styles thrown around here distracts you from the album's strengths.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 66 out of 87
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Mixed: 14 out of 87
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Negative: 7 out of 87
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MislavF.Aug 12, 2008
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Feb 4, 2021This album is pretty good. I like how the band doesn't really take themselves seriously and they know who they are and what they do. It's just fun.
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Jan 19, 2021