Age of unreason

"Anyone who's spent any time with Bad Religion will know what they are getting into with Age of Unreason. It's a good album that largely succeeds because the band are old pros. And because Graffin and Gurewitz have plenty of genuine anger and articulate that anger in interesting ways. In that way, it's a spiritual successor to 2004's The Empire Strikes First, which came on the heels of the George W. Bush administration's invasion of Iraq and was equally political. It's good to know that Bad Religion is still out there standing up for science and rationality, especially at a time when those qualities feel like they're actually under attack".

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"Graffin remains a potent evangelist of the punk idiom, and while there's nothing on Age of Unreason that would sound out of place on anything that came before it, the band's commitment to keeping the genre vital, both musically and lyrically, feels as necessary as it does timely".

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"Age of Unreason is a mission statement for 2019 from a band that's made a history of mission statements in dire times. Whereas Bad Religion albums of the recent past boasted the same lyrical intelligence, moral high ground, and instrumental punk rock splendor, some of these albums felt like they melded into one another. There was something missing. There was a certain fire, a certain immediacy, and certain urgency of purpose that seemed to have waned a bit with age. Not so with Age of Unreason. It's as if Donald Trump's America has reignited a spark in the veteran band that had remained dormant since at least the latter Bush era".

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