Global rock superstars Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Tré Cool, aka Green Day, have just unleashed their highly anticipated fourteenth studio album, Saviors, along with a brand new music video for the third tune on the new record’s track list, “Bobby Sox”.
Speaking about “Bobby Sox”, Billie said, “‘Bobby Sox’ is one of my favourite songs on the album. It’s the nineties song that we never wrote. It started out being a song I wrote for my wife, but as it materialised, I wanted to switch it up and added, ‘Do you wanna be my boyfriend?’ on top of ‘Do you wanna be my girlfriend’…So the song becomes a kind of universal anthem.”
Saviors also features previously released riveting singles “One Eyed Bastard”, “Dilemma”, “Look Ma, No Brains!”, and “The American Dream Is Killing Me”.
Recorded in London and Los Angeles, Saviors is the latest incredible collaboration between Green Day and Grammy-winning producer Rob Cavallo, whose notable previous work with Green Day includes two of the band’s most iconic albums, 1994’s Dookie and 2004’s American Idiot.
The album will be followed by the Saviors Tour, fueled by Monster Energy, later this year, which kicks off in Europe this May before making its way to North America in July. Last week, the band revealed on Howard Stern’s SiriusXM show that, for the first time ever, along with fan favorites and offerings from the new album they’ll be performing both the Dookie and American Idiot albums in their entirety on the tour in celebration of their 2024 milestone anniversaries, with Dookie turning 30 this year and American Idiot turning 20.
As for how the new album sounds, Saviors is a tremendous treat for the ears all the way through that gets off to an insanely energising start with the superbly spirited “The American Dream Is Killing Me”, before diving into a trio of extremely thrilling and enthralling tunes titled “Look Ma, No Brains!”, “Bobby Sox” and “One Eye Bastard”, respectively. The latter is succeeded by the spectacularly powerful and massively moving “Dilemma”, after which “1981” provides a splendidly passionate preface to the enormously impactful and affecting “Goodnight Adeline”. Two more extremely thrilling and enthralling tunes, titled “Coma City” and “Corvette Summer”, respectively, follow from here ahead of the exceedingly stirring and spellbinding “Suzie Chapstick”. Next, the baton is passed to the delightfully zestful “Strange Days Are Here to Stay”, which escorts the record rousingly in the direction of the indescribably electrifying “Living in the the ‘20s”. This precedes the immensely touching “Father to A Son”, which hits hard ahead of the album’s massively invigorating title track, after which the compilation culminates in an incredibly epic and engrossing finale in the form of “Fancy Sauce”.
Green Day have delivered a mind-blowingly and breathtakingly brilliant rock record here that’s loaded with wonderful depth, zest, enthusiasm, emotion and melodiousness, and that packs a colossally powerful punch. Boasting an utterly superlative and completely impeccable coalescence of consistently inescapably captivating, magnificently mellifluous and stupendously expressive singing, marvellously poetic, deep, meaningful and thought-provoking lyrics, and exceptionally skilful, exciting and affecting instrumental work, Saviors is an absolutely irreproachable, unforgettable and genuine masterpiece of music that doesn’t contain a single subpar moment, and it will most definitely delight long-time fans of its creators and also win over an incalculable number of individuals who appreciate damn good and harmonious music in general. Sheer, unadulterated awesomeness.
You can check out the aforementioned newly-released music video for “Bobby Sox” below. And if you haven’t done so already, do yourself a favour and listen to Saviors in its entirety immediately. It can only make your day better if you do!
Saviors is available to stream, download and purchase in physical form now.