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Green Day’s highly anticipated new album, Saviors, is finally here.
When we spoke to the trio last year — in their first conversation about the record — Billie Joe Armstrong revealed that Saviors began taking shape near the onset of the pandemic, penning early songs like the title track, “Goodnight Adeline,” and “Look Ma, No Brains!”
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“Honestly, there were times where I just wanted to make a straight-up punk-rock record,” he says, citing “1981” and “Coma City.” “Then there were other times where these lush arrangements started coming out, like ‘Saviors’ and ‘Father to a Son.’ And with ‘Father to a Son,’ obviously it’s about family. It gets deeply personal, almost uncomfortable to even talk about. That song is heavy.
“With this record, I think it did bridge a gap in our career, as an arc, and all that,” Armstrong continues. “But mostly by us being at our best. The way that we went about it was doing what we do best, which is going and starting from scratch, and getting into the studio. Just turn on the amps and let’s go.”
Listen to Saviors below.
