This is Green Day's most ambitious album, probably. Divided into three mini-suites, the album continues American Idiot in sound and mood, if not in plot or characters. It lacks the zeitgeist of its predecessor, though, coming a bit too late. A few months after the end of the Bush administration can make a big difference, so the songs here feel like grumpy remnants of a long-gone era when they shouldn't and truly aren't. It's too bad, though, since some of the songs on here rank with Green Day's best, including "21 Guns" and "Last of the American Girls." It's possible that this set of songs, not quite as married to the political climate of the 2004 election, might age better than American Idiot. For now, though, it's the lesser of the two. Also, listening to it in 3 separate sittings is highly recommended: no matter how many tricks Green Day learns, a straight 80 minutes is still a long time to spend hearing politics from the guy who wrote "Longview."
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