Now time has come: After four years now reached us a new album by The Offspring. The old punks let meanwhile take it easy and take your time when writing and recording their songs. A total of two albums in nine years make that clear. First may be noted that Days Go By is better than Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace from the year 2008. That album suffered from a mushy, compressed sound and bland songs. With The Future Is Now the band rises a powerful and serves a song in typical Offspring-style. A lot of energy, a lot of Wohhoaaa chants. The same goes for Secrets From The Underground. The first two songs spread more power than has yet thought possible. Offspring prepare their trademark sound on again, without it one gets on my nerves. Much like Bad Religion, which is accused for years, actually have only a song, this is ultimately surprisingly but always nice to hear even with The Offspring. Next, follows the title track of the album Days Go By. And here already the first shortcoming of the disc will be heard. A slick, bare and colorless produced radio rock song. On the internet can track how the song over several years from the Foo Fighters Ripoff found to his final form. It will not get rid of the impression that here was to shamelessly the mainstream served. This is followed by two other punk songs that certainly can be heard and to be fun. But then it hits the listener like a sledgehammer. The eardrums beg an to Cruising California for mercy. It even looks perplexed from the laundry: Autotune, California, beach and big butts. Platter, chart Geiler and unworthy can not sully an album. Whoever keeps the whole for a Verarsche, should think again. While there, the band, the song with a wink is to understand, but why this abomination is then released as a single? This song goes, unfortunately, from irony and thus wasted a place on the album, which would certainly make more sense to be filled. Fits to the music video, which leaves no questions. After this setback, it will then go well serious again. It follows the ballad All I Have Left Is You, which shines in the beginning mainly through a very probably edited voice of singer Dexter Holland. This is thus hardly recognizable. The rest of the song is okay, nothing special. OC Guns, however, is a reggae mariachi mixture which is about the dangerous side Orange County. Gangs, shoot-and like this quite casually and treated unpeinlich for Offspring ratios. Since we had quite expected worse in advance and to Cruising California. The following re-recording of the song Dirty Magic (originally from the '92 album Ignition) you can safely skip. Yes, the song is good, yes, as a B-side or bonus song you could get him out thoroughly again. But dwindling creativity goes in this album visible even by audacious recycling. I Wanna Secret Family is again short and (almost) painless PopPunk. The last two songs are then again clear why despite everything always comes back at the albums of the band at his expense. Dividing By Zero and Slim Pickens Does The Right Thing And Rides The Bomb To Hell are fast, aggressive and powerful punk songs, whose lyrics shine through dark humor. In summary, that the album is noticeable in the long production time. It does not feel as if the disc a particular lifestyle or a certain period of time to capture and preserve. Instead, to be served apparently all tastes. While Dirty Magic is forgivable, because the song is good in itself, the fun stops at California Cruising. So it sounds, unfortunately, when musicians want to know the end 40 again, how to land a hit and thereby build Frankensteins monster chart. This song is completely misplaced. But if you can overlook that receives at least the best Offspring album of the past nine years!
