True North (album)
True North is the 16th studio album by the American punk rock band Bad Religion. It was released in January 2013 with Epitaph Records.
History
During the tour to The Dissent of Man said Greg Graffin 2011 that Bad Religion would bring out another album and then " join the navy, do honest work" ( " Join the Navy, honest work to do " ), which initially speculation in well-known media led the band would break up. However, this was not the case. After the tour, the band started writing songs for a new album that was supposed to appear as early as 2012. After some much more settled in the mid-tempo predecessor The Dissent Of Man the target for True North was back to write a faster, harder album, inspired by publications like Suffer and No Control. Consequently, a majority of the songs rather fast hardcore attributable to pieces of about two minutes in length. It was taken to the studio with producer Joe Barresi in July and August 2012 in "Joe's House of Compression". Already in November 2012 appeared "Fuck You" as the first single, in December 2012, then the title track of the album. The lyrics are often socially critical, the song Robin Hood in Reverse criticized about the redistribution from bottom to top.
Reviews
The reviews of the album were quite positive so far. Jason Lymangrover of Allmusic gave three out of five stars and wrote: ". ... For their 16th album, True North, Bad Religion are silent fully inspired and delivering sturdy, memorable, and solidly crafted material" On the side of the plate Musikreviews.de received 11 of 15 points. Andreas Schiffmann wrote: " Unlike many flagships presented to the newest version of this model is not the sake of completeness in the closet to it -is and nothing else but bring it gladly out and listens. " In this form should " like to go on for 20 years. " The album debuted at # 19 in the Billboard 200.