Good Riddance - Peace in Our Time - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

For more than 25 years, Good Riddance has written tuneful punk anthems that take on injustice in all forms, from social to political to personal. That spirit drove classic albums like For God and Country, A Comprehensive Guide to Moderne Rebellion, and Ballads from the Revolution, and it carries through to the new Thoughts and Prayers, Good Riddance's second album since reforming in 2012. As a voice of resistance through four presidential administrations, Good Riddance seems well-suited for these fraught times - but don't expect a bunch of obvious anti-45 screeds. Album Tracks 1. Edmund Pettus Bridge 2. Rapture 3. Don't Have Time 4. Our Great Divide 5. Wish You Well 6. Precariat 7. No King But Caesar 8. Who We Are 9. No Safe Place 10. Pox Americana 11. Lo Que Sucede 12. Requisite Catastrophes

Most of the writing of Naima Bocks second album, Below A Massive Dark Land, was a solitary affair. It may not sound like it it's made up of strong, purposeful arrangements with a huge host of musicians, filled with cradling space and warm light. This will also come as a surprise to anyone who has seen Naima perform in the time since the of her 2022 debut Giant Palm, which was undoubtedly a communal experience.But there's power in the solitary, too. Giant Palm was arranged with collaborator Joel Burton, but going this one alone in search of something that was truly hers, Naima found she was capable of more. After me and Joel stopped working together, she remembers, it was an impossibility to even fathom doing arrangements myself but then I started learning violin and it was possible. Finding that she could go it alone was incredibly powerful for Naima I think I needed it, to be able to feel proud of something.Beyond the writing process, however, the record is not a stark, stripped back affair. Below still has the majesty that made Giant Palm so remarkable. Having tugged the first record down from the skies and spreading it across the earth, Naima finds a newfound vocal power and confidence born from hundreds of hours on stage, and the music sounds fuller, more tangible, and no less enveloping. This can be heard on the albums lead singles Kaley feels fresh and surprising in it's rug-pull choppiness but is distinctly Naima in it's swinging, jubilant choruses. The accompanying Further Away takes a different tack, drawing you in with it's simplicity. Finally, the hazy, luxurious beauty of Feed My draws on the sepia-toned traditions of The Roches, John Prine and Loudon Wainwright III and imbues them with the kind of stark confessional songwriting of Mount Eerie. These are ambitious, rich arrangements that reach deeper and darker lyrically than Giant Palm.Below a Massi

Ferocious punk band Good Riddances releases their 5th album full of that power, spunky, passion that this quartet have become known for. Album Tracks 1. Fire Engine Red 2. Enter the Unapproachables 3. Yesterday's Headlines 4. Great Leap Forward 5. Cheyenne 6. Libertine 7. Trial of the Century 8. Nobody Likes a Cynic 9. Pisces/Almost Home 10. Defusing the Popular Struggle 11. All the Joy You've Ever Known 12. Blue Black Eyes 13. Spit You Out 14. Spit You Out