★★★★☆Since the early 1990s Green Day have offered a thoroughly American take on punk rock, redolent of shopping malls and stadiums rather than safety pins and sniffing glue. Rebellion in Green Day’s world was more of the annoying-your-parents than the wrecking-of-civilisation variety, at least until the band got serious on 2004’s Bush administration critique American Idiot. Now, after overstretching themselves massively in 2012 by releasing three poor-selling albums in unison, they are back on form with Revolution Radio. It’s a straight-up collection of 12 punk-pop belters, by and about middle-aged men who are not doing a very good job of…

Source: The Times October 06, 2016 22:52 UTC