It's refreshing, comforting even, to have Green Day back in their exuberant element, unburdened by message or morality.
It’s the shortest release of their career to date, clocking in at just 26 minutes, but it also finds them taking on and dishing out more musical ideas and genres than ever before.
If you’re just looking for some catchy pop-punk rock & roll tunes, they’ve written 10 of those, and most of them are real good.
In 2020 Billie Joe Amstrong and co. are rebels without a cause, their 13th album an angry little fucker with its collar popped.
Green Day deliver everything with such panache that the songs’ limitations don’t really matter, especially when they manage to make tired old tropes seem fresh.
It's close to impossible to emerge from it's rapid-fire near-half-hour without a smile on your face.
On ‘Father of All…’ Green Day have delivered possibly their most immediate album this century and an album that, despite its short length, grows more rewarding with repeat listens.
While the album doesn't deliver their most memorable songs, its wild glam experimentation and attitude-heavy performances show a band still seeking new thrills even decades in.
It crackles with energy, buoyed by the feeling that the trio are finally unshackled by their past. It's punchy, and the hooks generally last long past the record's short runtime.
Father of All… is a solid album that shows not only their mastery of sound but also genre and nods to the greats that came before them.
The pop-punk stalwarts resist political commentary in lieu of making the most convincingly carefree Green Day record of the new millennium.
It doesn’t always quite connect, but it’s a bit of fun all the same.
It's clear what they've wanted to do, and in some aspects have nailed it head-on, but to execute this properly, there needs to be more focus on wrapping that pure-as-fuck punk heart that beats in their chests in something more than a cartoon unicorn.
In an era defined by the worst American President in history, Father of All… resolutely refuses to engage. No big statements, no grand thematic structures, no political posturing. In a way however, this feels like the radical option these days - a raucous, rock’n’roll ‘no comment’ on our times.
This far in ... Billy Joe Armstrong and co occasionally struggle to sound like they really mean it.
Green Day's Father of All is too short, superficial, and samey to have any lasting impact.
Among the disappointing sonic experiments, there are a handful of gems that prove Green Day’s worth in 2020.
Certain songs try to recapture their old glory, while others feel like an embarrassing pop ploy—but the most consistent feeling is pure disappointment. Even when Green Day is supposedly having fun here, they sound tired and overworked at best.
At its best, Father sounds like a decent Queens of the Stone Age tribute band; at its worst, it sounds like a reemergence of over-polished circa-2003 iPod commercial trifles like Caesars and Jet.
There is no denying that Father of All… has a raw, frenzied energy, but its onslaught of straight rhythm-chord bashing and hand claps is at the cost of experimentation and interest.
Father of All... is fundamentally toothless and lacking in wit, originality, and invention.
Their rock n’ roll sounds deeply unsure of itself, too bland and uninspired, and as such is unable to stave off the suspicion that they’re running out of ideas.
When an album clocks in at under half an hour, with only three songs breaking the three-minute barrier, this should sound a whole lot livelier than it does.
‘Father Of All Motherfuckers’ is a refreshingly light breeze of retro rock songs that whizzes by in barely half an hour.
Green Day has clearly thrown in every single towel that they own, and have churned out Father of All Motherfuckers merely to fulfill a contractual obligation.
Green Day have become the very thing they once despised: buck-chasin’ mild boys of mayonnaise corporate rock.
Green Day tries to be the final nail in the rock music's coffin with Father of All...
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