NOFX Announce New LP 'Single Album', Share First Single Linewleum Featuring Avenged Sevenfold
Wednesday, 13 January 2021
Written by Jon Stickler
NOFX have announced their 14th studio album.
The confusingly titled 'Single Album' will arrive on February 26 via vocalist Fat Mike's label Fat Wreck Chords, following-up 2016’s 'First Ditch Effort'.
As a preview, the Los Angeles band have unveiled the first single Linewleum, a reworking of Linoleum off 1994's 'Punk In Drublic' album, which fuses guitar leads from guests Avenged Sevenfold with the familiar bombastic skate-punk energy that NOFX are known for. Fat Mike said:
"I have no idea why Linoleum is THE NOFX song that is covered by so many bands – it wasn’t a single, it had no video, it got no radio play, and most importantly, it didn’t even have a chorus!!! All popular songs have choruses! WTF!
"So, One night I stayed up till 4:00 am checking out all the different versions on YouTube. Watching hundreds of bands from over 28 countries (mostly Indonesia) doing Linoleum was a humbling experience for me. So I decided to write a song that was a shout out to all those people that learned those four chords and remembered the non-rhyming lyrics.
"Then I asked the biggest of all the bands (Avenged Sevenfold) to play some leads on the song. Then M Shadows suggested we do a video together. Then I figured I should put all of the bands in the video. Well, I couldn’t fit all the bands, but I picked a bunch of cool ones!"
Recorded at Motor Studios in San Francisco with The Blasting Room co-owner Jason Livermore and Bill Stevenson of Descendents, the LP was originally intended to be a double record before the coronavirus pandemic changed the group's plans.
Mike added: "When you write a double album, you write differently. I was writing really different songs, and some fun songs, but you have to make a double album interesting enough to listen to the whole way. I wanted to make a perfect double album, and I didn’t accomplish that. So I decided to just make a single album, hence the title."
Head below to check out its tracklist and artwork alongside the video for Linewleum.
'Single Album' tracklist:
1. The Big Drag
2. I Love You More Than I Hate Me
3. Fuck Euphemism
4. Fish in a Gun Barrel
5. Birmingham
6. Linewleum
7. My Bro Cancervive Cancer
8. Grieve Soto
9. Doors and Fours
10. Your Last Resort
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