finally… new Offspring!
We’ve only been waiting about 5 years.
They have released their new track, Hammerhead, on their website as a free download. And encoded at 320kbps, DRM free. Very sweet indeed. No point in paying $1.69 on iTunes for it, that’s for sure. I do indeed like the sound of the song. Someone on Facebook compared it to Million Miles Away, which I would agree with. The other thing is that it’s quite long for and Offspring song - 4 and a half minutes. And I don’t think it needs to be that long. It feels they they just played random chords and repeated them for about a minute longer than necessary.
It doesn’t actually sound like anything wonderfully different from Conspiracy and Splinter days… very similar sound indeed. But in the end, it’s been so damn long since we last heard new Offspring that I don’t care. I love it :)
And excitement continues, because they have finally announced a date for the new album, Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace: June 14 for Australia… 3 days earlier than the US! We are so special. This album was beginning to feel a bit like Guns N’ Roses’ Chinese Democracy, in that I wondered if it would ever eventuate. But it is finally done and I can’t wait to hear it.
Hopefully Revive’s new album will arrive in Australia sometime this month, and then all I’ll have to wait for is Jack’s Mannequin’s new album, which was supposed to be out April, then June, and now not until August.
