Word: bloodclot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tough, gritty world of drinking, joblessness, back-alley drug deals and disillusioned immigrants; a world where corporations crush workers, governments lie to their citizens, and punk rock offers one of the few paths toward salvation. The songs on the California-based band's new album have names like Bloodclot, Black Lung and Cash, Culture & Violence; the guitar work is raw and roaring; and the quartet's two singer-guitarists, scraggly-voiced Tim Armstrong and bellowing Lars Frederiksen, both tend to slur and snarl their way through songs...
With that minuscule but unavoidable flaw out of the way, Rancid begins unleashing the usual all-out aural assault with the album's first single, "Bloodclot." Several "hey-ho's" and "nah-nah's" later, with the melodies acting as some sort of immediately infectious drug and the muscle-bound punk cowboy aesthetic getting full play, the stage is set for the rest of the record to branch out. "Bloodclot" is a successful segue from "Wolves" to the rest of the new album...
Lead guitarists and vocalists Tim Armstrong and Lars Frederiksen have always been great story-tellers and commentators, "streetwise professor[s]" as they call themselves in "Bloodclot." Life Won't Wait is primarily a moment for reflection, though, while most of their previous material was solely observation. Lyrically, the new album works through the head instead of the eyes by focusing and expanding on such issues broached in "Avenues and Alleyways" from Wolves, stretching the criticism and recommendations across the whole record...