Review: Saviours is the forthcoming fourteenth studio album by all-American punks Green Day, recorded between London and LA and in the words of Billie Joe Armstrong himself, an intensely political one, covering "power pop, punk, rock, indie triumph, disease, war, inequality, influencers, yoga retreats, alt right, dating apps, masks, MENTAL HEALTH, climate change, oligarchs, social media division, free weed, fentanyl, fragility..." In other words, and in true Green Day fashion, this one'll be an all-out lampooning of the American Dream, in all its late-stage inauthenticity, failure, and inability to prevent its own collapsing-in-on-itself.
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