Bad Religion guitarist Brian Baker shared an update on the band’s upcoming projects during an interview with Pogopedia, making it clear that work on a new album is moving slowly for a reason.
“We’re trying to make a record, and it has to be a good record, so it’s taking a long time,”
Baker said, noting that the band is focused on getting things right rather than rushing a release. He also spoke about how the topics the band has written about for years are still relevant today. Baker said there’s no real satisfaction in being proven right.
“You don’t get a prize for being right,” he said, adding that those critiques still resonate today. Even so, he said the band keeps going. “It is depresslng, but what do you do? You push on. You keep pushing on,” Baker said. “From a creative standpoint, it’s important to build community and to create art and to do the things you can do.”
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The songs on Age Of Unreason - Bad Religion's 17th LP - are perfectly serviceable and fun to listen to, most of the time. It's a Bad Religion record and you know what it's going to sound like before you've even heard of it, which is both a strength and a weakness. There's some great songs like "Chaos From Within", "Old Regime" and "My Sanity", "The Approach", and "What Tomorrow Brings" that are just as fiery and melodically brilliant as any of their finest work. But then there's those awkward, musically/lyrically cringeworthy tracks like "Big Black Dog", "Lose Your Head", and "Since Now" that show the band's age, and recycle their own riffs and songs to diminishing returns. The album ends up more or less in line with their other post-2000 output in quality, sitting right in the middle-low tier of their catalogue, with half the songs being solid-to-great and the other half fairly forgettable.
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