After his fourth year of sobriety, Billie Joe Armstrong, lead singer of Green Day, decided to make a return and pushed his band to release another album. Revolution Radio is the band’s 12th studio album. While the other eleven albums appeal to listeners simply because they are fundamentally immature, Green Day presents a newfound maturity in Revolution Radio.

After listening to the album a couple times through, I found myself wanting to listen to “Ordinary World” again. While it is not the typical style of Green Day, the acoustic-style song was a nice variation of the rest of the album.

“Revolution Radio isn’t just hot nostalgia. It reflects decades of accrued emotional and musical wisdom…Armstrong’s lyrics are colored by his struggles with addiction and fears about our Trump-y future,” John Dolan, said in a review on Rolling Stones.

The song “Bang Bang” was one of the more striking songs on the album and was clearly a response to the recent mass shootings filling the news.

“Don’t listen to ‘Revolution Radio’ expecting meaningful political advocacy,” Kirby Wilson said in a review on The Chronicle. “In an era of a painful national discourse (or perhaps lack thereof) about the systemic discrimination built into our criminal justice system, all Green Day can manage is “Say hello to the cops on patrol / Say hello to the ones in control.”