Green Day spent the last decade making sure their amplifiers were so loud they lost the creativity to do anything with them.
Their new release “¡Uno!” is nothing new at all.
Critics and fans of the band alike will note the two Green Day eras: pre- and post-“American Idiot.” Green Day advertises “¡Uno!” as a new band image, but “¡Uno!” sounds like everything they’ve released since 2004: tame, vague, three-chord “political” rock.
Despite the shiny neon-green album art, “¡Uno!” is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, disguising another letdown album with gimmicky airbrush designs and meaningless F-bombs.
The announcement of “¡Uno!,” “¡Dos!” and “¡Tre!” as a three-album series, complete with a commemorative box set and documentary, screams “money-making endeavor.” The whole trilogy idea seems contrived and ingenuine, but how else could Green Day’s recent music be described?
The band’s lights are on, but nobody’s home.
How could Green Day possibly have two more upcoming albums of this stuff? Good riddance.
By Jeff LaFave
Green Day
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