Posted on March 31, 2009 - by Editor

Rancid announce new album- Let The Dominoes Fall Summer 09

RANCID SIGNALS RAUCOUS RETURN WITH ESSENTIAL NEW ALBUM LET THE DOMINOES FALL (JUNE 1 – HELLCAT/EPITAPH), THEIR FIRST IN SIX YEARS AND MOST TOPICAL TO DATE

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Seminal punk band Rancid – Tim Armstrong (guitar/vocals), Lars Frederiksen (guitar/vocals), Matt Freeman (bass/vocals), and Branden Steineckert (drums) – have set June 1st for the release of Let The Dominoes Fall (Hellcat/Epitaph), their first studio album in six years. The platinum-selling band recorded at George Lucas’ Skywalker Sound Studio, with production by Epitaph Records founder/Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz.  Let The Dominoes Fall  features nineteen new songs, all written by Rancid.  Special guest and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Booker T contributes Hammond B3 organ on one track, “Up To No Good.”

“The crew is back doing what we do best,” says Armstrong.  “We approached every element of this record as a team, and the result is my favorite Rancid record to date.”

It’s also their most topical.  From the unflinching observations of “This Place,”  “Lulu” and “Locomotive,” all of which presage the current economic meltdown, to “The Bravest Kids” which rails against media’s kid-glove treatment of the Iraq war, and the mostly acoustic “Civilian Ways,” inspired by the soldier’s journey of Armstrong’s brother to Iraq and back home again, Let The Dominoes Fall feels timely, adamant and alive.

“Last One To Die,” the first single from the new album, will premiere on April 7 via a widget available now on Rancid’s myspace page (http://www.myspace.com/rancid). Fans can register to get a personal embed code and then spread the widget to other sites.

Let The Dominoes Fall is Rancid’s seventh album and first studio release since 2003’s Indestructible, which reached #15 on the Billboard Top 200.

LET THE DOMINOES FALL TRACKLIST:

1.            East Bay Night

2.            This Place

3.            Up To No Good

4.            Last One To Die

5.            Disconnected

6.            I Ain’t Worried

7.            Damnation

8.            New Orleans

9.            Civilian Ways

10.          The Bravest Kids

11.          Skull City

12.          L.A. River

13.          Lulu

14.          Dominoes Fall

15.          Liberty and Freedom

16.          You Want It, You Got It

17.          Locomotive

18.          That’s Just The Way It Is Now

19.          The Highway