Green Day Father Of All... (Vinyl)

Five-time Grammy Award-winning Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Green Day unleash their thirteenth studio album, Father Of All...

In an interview with Billboard, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong said of the new album, "We wanted to create a dance groove with space between the drums and vocals [inspired by] the way Kendrick Lamar does things or old-school Motown music, where it's leading with the rhythm."

Formed in 1986 in Berkeley, CA, Green Day is one of the world's best-selling bands of all time, with more than 70 million records sold worldwide and 10 billion cumulative audio/visual streams. Their 1994 breakout album Dookie,which sold over 10 million and achieved diamond status, is widely credited with popularizing and reviving mainstream interest in punk rock, catapulting a career-long run of #1 hit singles. Entertainment Weekly calls Green Day, "The most influential band of their generation," while Rolling Stone attests, "Green Day have inspired more young bands to start than any act this side of KISS, and that doesn't seem to be changing." In 2004,Green Day released the rock opera American Idiot which captured the nation's attention, selling more than 7 million copies in the U.S. alone and taking home the coveted Grammy Award for Rock Album of the Year. Mojod eclared, "It's exhilarating stuff, the kind of record that sets new parameters as to what is possible from a punk rock 'n' roll band in the 21st century." In 2010, a stage adaptation of American Idiot debuted on Broadway to critical and commercial acclaim.

"The glam-slam stomper 'Oh Yeah!' summons Joan Jett's version of 'Do You Wanna Touch Me.' The speed-freak Merseybeat cheese of 'Stab You in the Heart' is phony Beatlemania at its finest, right down to its screaming-girl crowd noise. A couple songs - the begging, pleading breakneck title track, the wonderful Dexy's Midnight Runners-tinged mod swing of 'Meet Me on the Roof' -- play with echoes of Sixties soul. Fitting this bright palette, Green Day revel in a decidedly lighthearted vision of teenage wasteland, piling on razor hooks, corn-syrup guitar crunch, and hand-clap drum bash, rarely stooping to inject these oft-blazing tunes with much in the way of bile or ballast. When they do channel all-American angst, the tone is winking and wistfully matter-of-fact, rendering adolescent rage as a fun, formal gesture. 'Graffitia' riffs on Eddie Cochran's 'Summertime Blues' and Summer of Love pop as it looks back longingly at the glory days of Bay Area punk; the album's big anthem is knowingly titled 'I Was a Teenage Teenager'; its catchiest tune is called 'Sugar Youth,' and sugar-sharp it is, an absolute masterclass in Cali-core hooksmanship." - Rolling Stone, 4/5 Stars

Father of All... is a bountiful act of recovered rock memory, an effortlessly affirming argument that the first mosh pit or car radio contact high you get when you're 13 years old can be enough to sustain you long into life.