Album Review: NOFX - "Double Album"

 

The follow-up to last year's Single Album (logically titled then I guess) sees Fat Mike and co return and in just as much of an uncompromising mood as ever. And, let's be honest, we wouldn't have 'em any other way.

Opener Darby Crashing Your Party (named after the infamous late Germs frontman) sees Mike looking at some of his less than advisable past exploits and half-apologising, half shrugging his shoulders in the best Stiv style nihilistic fashion before My Favourite Enemy is similarly self-critical with its brutal pummelling drums being underpinned by a surprisingly melodic tune. Don't Count On Me is similarly brutally honest ("It's not that I don't care/I just don't care very much") while packing in about five changes of pace to come up with arguably the album's highlight.

As I said at the outset, Mike and co are in an unapologetic mood here with Fuck Day Six being a brutal look at the week Mike spent in a drying out mansion that backfired and Is It Too Soon If Time Is Relative? being a cruel but sicko-funny piss-take of Stephen Hawking (written before his sad passing a few years ago). Unlike Single Album and Mike's recent Cokie the Clown solo album, this is much more upbeat in its tone (although as I mentioned earlier, it can still be brutal as feck when it wants as the dark tale of family dysfunction on Three Against Me details) but the key is that it's got the hooks, tunes and, who knew it, inventiveness to make it a good listen. A worthy companion to its predecessor and the sound of a band on a good run of form, especially for this stage in their careers.

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