FAT Wreck Chords and cult West Coast punks NOFX are pleased to present 'Punk Rock Cliché', the second single from the band's upcoming album 'Double Album', which is due out on Friday 2nd December. The album can be pre-ordered HERE!
Produced by Bill Stevenson (Descendents) and Jason Livermore (Blasting Room), "Double Album" oozes unbridled creativity, cheeky lyrics and is easily one of the best NOFX albums yet.
Those who missed the first single can listen to "Darby Crashing Your Party" on any digital provider or on YouTube.
NOFX are on their way to Australia starting next month to play various concerts there. For the rest of the world we have to wait and see; However, a number of tour dates for 2023 are set to be announced very soon!
"I wish I knew," replies Fat Mike, almost confused as to why anyone is even asking him that question. "OK. I mean we have a lot of records. I'm not sure how many there are, say 15 with 10 more EPs and 65 7's. I wanted to do a double album because there aren't any good albums out there. Pink Floyd's "The Wall" is pretty much everything. Quadrophenia is ok if you're a Who fan I guess. Definitely not the "White Album" [by the Beatles]. I don't think anyone else has made good double albums. Certainly not Hüsker Dü, Minutemen or Smashing Pumpkins."
"I really like "Single Album" but the songs on "Double Album" are not quite up to date. All these songs were recorded at the same time, but this one wasn't finished until two years later. I think "It's a very enjoyable album, maybe our funnest. I think it's what a lot of our fans want to hear. And it's a great third and fourth side for a double album. I've accomplished my goal of making a solid double album." , but it just took a lot longer than I initially expected."
Reuniting with punk rock legends Bill Stevenson and Jason Livermore as producers/engineers, it's no stretch to say NOFX are now making their best music. But that doesn't mean everything else they did was crap. But "Double Album" is a reminder to both die-hard fans and casual listeners alike that NOFX weren't born to follow trends. In fact, NOFX - Fat Mike, guitarists Eric Melvin and El Hefe, and drummer "Smelly" Eric Sandin - have carved their logo into the veneer of punk rock culture for decades. With almost 40 years in this circus you will meet people and do/see/conspire the wildest things. Remember that one of the stipulations of the NOFX book "The Hepatitis Bathtub" was that none of the band members were allowed to see what the others wrote about them? Well, this time Mike got permission to explore the quirks and idiosyncrasies of the people in to process songs to achieve maximum speed and comedy.
There's "Joanna Constant Teen," a 78-second tribute to the dominatrix who stayed at Mike's New York Airbnb for six weeks during the production of his musical, Home Street Home. ("She just moved in and played with me every night. She was always like, 'Mike, it's time to write a new song. Get started, or you know what's going to happen!' That was really cool. Obviously I've I don't write that much.") "Alcopollack" is about the booking agent David Pollack, who has worked with the band for over 30 years and has lost more than part of his customers because of his outrageous honesty. ("I asked him if it was okay if we put that on the album and he was like, 'Yeah, right. It's mean but funny.'") "Fuck Day Six" is a story about time , where Mike got clean (pun intended, sort of) at a Buddhist-run rehab, with lots of namedropping (and deuce). ("Anyone who has quit opiates knows what 'Day Six' means.") "Is It Too Soon If Time Is Relative" is a hilarious and gruesome reckoning with acclaimed author/physicist Stephen Hawking. ("I wrote that before he died," Mike apologizes. "It's not quite as funny anymore. I wanted him to hear it.")
Of course, Mike has made a career of changing the word "self" to "self-loathing," and he's not going to stop now. Featuring future classics like "Darby Crashing Your Party", "Punk Rock Cliché", the song that was dropped from the Blink 182 album "California" after the band found out Matt Skiba co-wrote it with Fatty (although it was her favorite song (Mike also admits the Blink version of the song was better.) The too real, too bittersweet, too funny tracks "My Favorite Enemy" and "Don't Count On Me" show that he's always hasn't had a problem getting a cream cake in the face, even if it has broken glass and sharpened nails in it.
"You have to laugh at everything," reveals Mike, "because the world is falling apart and you have to have a good attitude not to take things too seriously. That's how I've always done it. I make people laugh every day I usually do it in a self-deprecating way, that's the way I go through life: I have as much fun as possible. That's what life is all about - trying to find as much happiness as you can. And To spread happiness. I feel like that should be my mission in life - to spread joy."
A determination to continue making compelling music, to keep the bar high for punk and to do what is best for their punk rock legacy makes NOFX simply unstoppable. "Double Album" is packed with moods, stories and tempos that are a little faster than an ice truck sliding backwards down a mountain. So what's their secret? It's simple: NOFX don't do things by halves.
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