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Songwriting & Recording
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Songwriting took place in early 2018. Greg posted on Twitter that “new songs were in the pipeline” on February 14th. Demos were recorded, according to Greg’s twitter, during March 2018. Brett and Greg worked on them together in LA.
The band entered Sunset Sound in LA in late ... Read more
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Jay's Equipment
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To record his bass tracks, Jay originally brought in three basses and let Carlos & Brett decide which one sounded the best for what they were looking for. They settled on a stock Fender '64 Precision Bass, an old Hiwatt amp, and an old Fender deluxe single 12" speaker. Jay had never ... Read more
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Mike's Equipment
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Mike used his 1982 30th Anniversary Gibson Les Paul Goldtop and his Late 1959 Gibson Les Paul Junior to record his guitar tracks.
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Release
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KROQ began playing the first single from the album, “My Sanity” on November 9th, 2018. It was released to all digital platforms on November 14th. It was first played live at the “KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas” on December 9th, 2018.
On February 26th, 2019 the second si... Read more
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Theme
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The U.S. politcal climate during 2018 revolving around the President of the United States at the time, Donald Trump, played into the main theme of the album.
Greg: "When I saw all these headlines about how terrible our world had become, I started doing a lot of reading. I read about the F... Read more
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Artwork
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The photo used for the cover is a photo by Los Angeles, CA based photographer David Black. It was featured in a January 2017 exhibition at The Lodge Gallery in Los Angeles.
The car used in the photo is a 1998 Mercedes-Benz 560SL (or similar).
Reception
The album would... Read more
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Reception
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The album would peak at number 73 on the Billboard 200 in the United States, not reaching the heights of 2013's True North (album), which peaked at number 19.
It peaked at number 8 on the Offizielle Top 100 in Germany, and number 28 on the ARIA in Austrailia.
The album was l... Read more
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Band Interpretation/Opinions
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Brian Baker: "The reason it took so long to come out, was because we just didn’t have the songs yet. It’s kind of a happy coincidence, I mean obviously the Trump administration is pretty much tailor-made for a punk rock response, and in the case of Bad Religion, I think it’... Read more
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Trivia
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It was the first album to feature Mike Dimkich on guitar and Jamie Miller on drums. It was the first album to not feature Greg Hetson on guitar since 1983's Into the Unknown and the first album to not feature Brooks Wackerman on drums since 2000's The New America (album).
It was ... Read more
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