Bad Religion – True North (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Bad Religion – True North (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 35:14 minutes | 807 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Epitaph

Los Angeles’ punk icons Bad Religion have released their eagerly-anticipated album True North. In a world still brimming with inequality and oppression, the band’s trademark dissent seems as relevant as ever. The album finds the band refining the melodic Southern California sound they helped established, led by the propulsive anthem “F*ck You.” True North is one of the band’s most emotionally accessible works to date.

As a veteran group, it would be easy to go through the motions at this point, but for their 16th album, True North, Bad Religion are still fully inspired and delivering sturdy, memorable, and solidly crafted material. Released on guitarist Brett Gurewitz’s Epitaph Records, after more than 250 songs, the founding member clearly knows what works for the band, and he sticks to the formula of uptempo, muscular anthems with chunky guitar parts and contemplative lyrics. Vocalist Greg Graffin continues to question the government, Christianity, and American society at large, sounding expressive, with a little less grit than usual, but tireless. True North shows flashes of their earlier work, and is a step up from their last album, 2010’s The Dissent of Man, in terms of aggression. No straight-ahead pop tracks to be found here. Just 16 rapid-paced songs in under 35 minutes. Even after lineup changes, this latest edition of Bad Religion — Graffin, Gurewitz, guitarists Brian Baker and Greg Hetson, bassist Jay Bentley, and drummer Brooks Wackerman — operates like a well-oiled machine and plays its classic anti-establishment brand of So-Cal punk effortlessly. So well, in fact, that many of the songs on board hold up against the best material they’ve written since adding a third guitarist. There are some rare moments of lyrical levity too: for instance, when Graffin defends his usage of “fuck you” by explaining that it’s just a Pavlovian response that he can’t help and a way to pay homage to your bad attitude. While not exactly Bad Religion’s deepest sentiment, it’s a great summation of their long, long career as angry yet intellectual punks.

Tracklist:

01. Bad Religion – True North (01:55)
02. Bad Religion – Past is Dead (02:38)
03. Bad Religion – Robin Hood in Reverse (02:53)
04. Bad Religion – Land of Endless Greed (01:53)
05. Bad Religion – Fuck You (02:13)
06. Bad Religion – Dharma and the Bomb (02:00)
07. Bad Religion – Hello Cruel World (03:49)
08. Bad Religion – Vanity (01:01)
09. Bad Religion – In Their Hearts is Right (01:59)
10. Bad Religion – Crisis Time (02:39)
11. Bad Religion – Dept. of False Hope (02:40)
12. Bad Religion – Nothing To Dismay (02:06)
13. Bad Religion – Popular Consensus (01:52)
14. Bad Religion – My Head is Full of Ghosts (01:46)
15. Bad Religion – The Island (01:28)
16. Bad Religion – Changing Tide (02:15)

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