Single Album (2021)

Single Album is the 14th studio outing from West Coast punk stalwarts NOFX following their 2020 split-LP West Coast vs. Wessex with English singer/songwriter Frank Turner. Initially conceived as a double album, the band's sessions were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and they subsequently refocused their effort into this shorter and typically wry "single-album" edition. Offering no major shake-ups to their tried and true formula, frontman/bassist Fat Mike and his colleagues nonetheless get down to business cranking out ... Read More

Single Album is the 14th studio outing from West Coast punk stalwarts NOFX following their 2020 split-LP West Coast vs. Wessex with English singer/songwriter Frank Turner. Initially conceived as a double album, the band's sessions were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and they subsequently refocused their effort into this shorter and typically wry "single-album" edition. Offering no major shake-ups to their tried and true formula, frontman/bassist Fat Mike and his colleagues nonetheless get down to business cranking out their signature blend with precision and vigor on darkly comic cuts like "I Love You More Than I Hate Me" and "Fish in a Gun Barrel." NOFX even revisit their past, enlisting Avenged Sevenfold to help reinterpret the 1994 fan favorite "Linoleum" into the spirited "Linewleum." Neither a boon nor a blemish to their already-stout catalog, Single Album should serve longtime fans well enough without pulling a lot of new ones in. ~ Timothy Monger, Rovi Read Less