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