The Punk Site 2021 Top 20: NOFX – Single Album

At number 3 in The Punk Site‘s 2021 Top 20 is NOFX’s Single Album, the band’s 14th full-length studio full length, that was released back in March via Fat Wreck Chords. Single Album was recorded at Motor Studios in San Francisco with Bill Stevenson and Jason Livermore and comes complete with a six-minute post-hardcore opener, a meta send-off for the band’s best-known song and even a piano ballad.

“Fat Mike writes each album as if it’s his last, acknowledging that the punk rock lifestyle can be unforgiving.  If Fat Mike keeled over and croaked today, Single Album once again ensures that he would have said all he needed to – up to this point.  This recognition of mortality likely stems from the early passing of No Use For A Name’s Tony Sly, and is reinforced more recently by the passing of Adolescents’ bassist Steve Soto in “Grieve Soto.”  With each member of NOFX hovering around the fifty-four/fifty-five year old mark, the future is uncertain, but the present is clearly defined.  With roughly five years between recent releases, the band members could very well be pushing sixty for their next release.  In this way, Single Album is the album that NOFX needed to write at this moment, and it succeeds at capturing what fans have always loved while existing firmly in the present.” (Cole Faulkner, March 2021)

Single Album is available via Fat Wreck Chords