True North (album)

True North
Bad Religion studio album
Publication (s)	January 22, 2013
admission	July-August 2012
Label (s)	Epitaph Records
Format (s)	CD
Genre (s)	Punk rock , melodic hardcore
Title (number)	16
running time	36:17
production	Brett Gurewitz and Joe Barresi
Studio (s)	Joe's House of Compression
chronology The Dissent of Man (2010) True North Age of Unreason (2019)

True North is the 16th studio album of American punk rock - band Bad Religion . It was released on Epitaph Records in January 2013 .

history

While touring The Dissent of Man in 2011, Greg Graffin said that Bad Religion would release another album and then "join the navy, do honest work", leading to speculation in well-known at first Media led that the band would break up. But this was not the case. After the tour, the band began writing songs for a new album, which was originally due to be released in 2012. After the predecessor The Dissent Of Man , which was partly much more mid-tempo, the goal for True North was to write a faster, harder album again, which is based on releases such as Suffer and No Control . As a result, the majority of the songs are fast pieces of about two minutes in length that can be classified as hardcore. It was recorded in July and August 2012 at Joe's House of Compression, producer Joe Barresi's studio. "Fuck You" was released as the first single in November 2012, followed by the title track of the album in December 2012. The lyrics are often socially critical, the song Robin Hood in Reverse criticizes the redistribution from bottom to top. In the song Dharma and the Bomb , for the first time in the band's history, not Greg Graffin but Brett Gurewitz can be heard as the lead singer.

Reviews

The reviews of the album have been quite positive so far. Jason Lymangrover from Allmusic gave 3 out of 5 stars and wrote: "... for their 16th album, True North , Bad Religion are still fully inspired and delivering sturdy, memorable, and solidly crafted material." On the page Musikreviews.de the record received 11 out of 15 points. Andreas Schiffmann wrote: "In contrast to many flagships, the latest version of this model was not put in the closet for the sake of completeness, to look at it and nothing else, but rather to pull it out and listen." In this form, "it can go on for another 20 years." The album debuted at number 19 on the Billboard 200 .

"Also on their 16th studio album" True North "Messrs Graffin, Gurewitz and Co. do not let anything go wrong and once again hurry away from the panting successor punk generation. [...] With "True North" Bad Religion are sitting more firmly in the genre saddle than ever and are catapulting themselves straight forward again after past easy rolling courses. If you want to come along, you should buckle up.
4 out of 5 stars. ”

- Kai Butterweck : laut.de

Track list

1. "True North" - 1:56
2. "Past Is Dead" - 2:39
3. "Robin Hood in Reverse" - 2:53
4. "Land of Endless Greed" - 1:53
5. "Fuck You" - 2:14
6. "Dharma and the Bomb" - 2:00
7. "Hello Cruel World" - 3:50
8. "Vanity" - 1:02
9. "In Their Hearts Is Right" - 1:59
10. "Crisis Time" - 2:39
11. "Dept. of False Hope" - 2:40
12. "Nothing to Dismay" - 2:07
13. "Popular Consensus" - 1:53
14. "My Head Is Full of Ghosts" - 1:46
15. "The Island" - 1:28
16. "Changing Tide" - 2:23

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bad Religion's 'True North' Q&A: 'We're Still Creating Our Legacy' . Billboard. January 14, 2013. Retrieved January 15, 2013.
2. ^ Allmusic review . Retrieved October 22, 2013.
3. ↑ http://www.musikreviews.de/reviews/2013/Bad-Religion/True-North/
4. ^ True North at laut.de.