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NOFX – Double Album (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 27:09 minutes | 346 MB | Genre: Punk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fat Wreck Chords
NoFX’s latest and possibly last record as 2023 will be NoFX’s final world tour. Produced by Bill Stevenson and Jason Livermore at The Blasting Room.
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “We have just one question for Fat Mike: At this point in your career, why do a double album?
“It just seems like the right time,” the singer, bassist and chief troublemaker of NOFX. “We have a lot of records. I’m not sure how many, I think we have 15 studio albums, with 10 more EP’s, three live albums, and 45 7”s. I wanted to do a double album cuz it’s a challenge and I don’t think there’s any really good double albums out there. Pink Floyd’s The Wall is about it. Quadrophenia is pretty good … if you’re a Who fan. Definitely not the (Beatles’) White Album. I don’t think anybody else has made a good double album. Certainly not Hüsker Dü, Minutemen or Smashing Pumpkins.
“I really like Single Album a lot. I like every song — but the songs on Double Album aren’t quite as good. All these songs were recorded in the same month, but I didn’t finish the second album until two years later. I think it’s a very enjoyable album, and maybe our funniest. I think it is what a lot of our fans will want to hear. I think it’s a great Side 3 and 4 for a double album. I believe I accomplished my goal of making a solid double album — but it just took a lot longer than I expected.”
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NOFX & Frank Turner – West Coast vs. Wessex (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 29:55 minutes | 349 MB | Genre: Punk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fat Wreck Chords
How often does the leader of one of your favorite bands ask you to do a split album? Where his band covers your songs? Singer-songwriter Frank Turner found himself in that situation last year, when Fat Mike of NOFX asked if he wanted to do a split covers album. West Coast vs. Wessex shows NOFX filtering five of Frank Turner’s songs through their singular sensibility, with Turner doing the same on five NOFX songs. But these aren’t simply double-time versions of Turner’s folk-punk tunes or slow, acoustic reworkings of NOFX’s iconic SoCal punk anthems. Both NOFX and Frank Turner took time to play with the possibilities each other’s music presented. They also put a lot of thought into the songs they chose to cover. Both groups really wanted to songs that presented an opportunity to create something unique, and bring something to the song that really made it their own. For Frank Turner’s side, the result was a tracklist that pulls more or less from deeper in NOFX’s discography. NOFX classic Bob being the exception, Turner transforms into a wistful country song. Perfect Government is joyously turned into a barroom singalong, along with a punked up Scavenger Type, the post-hardcore Eat the Meek, and a spare, haunting Falling in Love. On the NOFX side, their climactic take on Substitute could’ve fit on Punk in Drublic. Worse Things Happen at Sea simmers with an ominous portent. The jaunty Thatcher Fucked the Kids sounds like a companion to NOFX’s Philthy Phil Philanthropist. The Ballad of Me and My Friends, lilting and bittersweet in Frank Turner’s original, goes balls-out here. Glory Hallelujah sounds like a lost track from Fat Mike’s stage musical, Home Street Home. There is no loser on West Coast Vs. Wessex. The Frank Turner-Fat Mike Mutual Admiration Society has produced 10 hooky reimaginings of each other’s music. The novelty may pique listeners’ curiosity, but the songs will keep them coming back.
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