Let the Dominoes Fall is the seventh full-length album from punk rock band Rancid, which was released on June 2, 2009 on Hellcat Records. It is the band's third album for the label, which is a subsidiary of producer Brett Gurewitz's Epitaph Records and owned by guitarist Tim Armstrong. This is their first album of new material in nearly six years, following 2003's Indestructible, and their first with drummer Branden Steineckert, who joined the band in 2006 after the departure of founding drummer...
Let the Dominoes Fall is the seventh full-length album from punk rock band Rancid, which was released on June 2, 2009 on Hellcat Records. It is the band's third album for the label, which is a subsidiary of producer Brett Gurewitz's Epitaph Records and owned by guitarist Tim Armstrong. This is their first album of new material in nearly six years, following 2003's Indestructible, and their first with drummer Branden Steineckert, who joined the band in 2006 after the departure of founding drummer Brett Reed.
The span of nearly six years between Indestructible and Let the Dominoes Fall was Rancid's longest gap between studio albums in their career. The band had begun working on new material after their temporary hiatus in 2004, but showed no signs of a new album until January 2008, when they announced that they had begun recording with producer and Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz.The writing and recording process was finally finished in February 2009.
The album's first single "Last One to Die," was released on April 7, 2009 via the band's Myspace page. As of May 26, 2009 the album can be heard on MySpace entirely. "Up To No Good" was released as the album's second single.
A deluxe edition of the album was also released on June 2, 2009. In addition to the regular album, it includes a bonus CD featuring twelve of the songs from the album in acoustic form, a DVD featuring a documentary about the making of the album, three posters and four guitar picks. It debuted at #11 on the Billboard 200, making this Rancid's highest charting album to date.
After a break in 2004, Rancid began writing their follow-up to Indestructible a year later. In November 2005, it was announced that the band had begun working on a "large amount of new material" for the album and guitarist Lars Frederiksen mentioned that it would surface sometime in 2006.
On April 13, 2006, Rancid posted a large update to their MySpace page and mentioned that the album would be released in the spring of 2007. For sometime later, it was announced that the release date had been changed to summer/fall 2007, despite frontman Tim Armstrong's solo tour schedule, supporting his first album A Poet's Life. On June 12, 2007, drummer Branden Steineckert posted on his MySpace blog stating that members of Rancid were expected to get back together in the fall to begin writing the album, then resume recording it in January 2008. In December of that year, it was reported that Rancid had finished writing the album.
Recording of the album at Skywalker Sound began in January 2008. The album was completed in early February 2009. The album is the band's fourth with producer Gurewitz, who previously worked with the band on Let's Go, their self-titled 2000 album, and the previous album, Indestructible.
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Rancid.
# Title Length
1. "East Bay Night" 2:05
2. "This Place" 1:03
3. "Up to No Good" 2:40
4. "Last One to Die" 2:23
5. "Disconnected" 2:00
6. "I Ain't Worried" 2:36
7. "Damnation" 1:30
8. "New Orleans" 3:04
9. "Civilian Ways" 4:11
10. "The Bravest Kids" 1:36
11. "Skull City" 2:51
12. "LA River" 2:35
13. "Lulu" 2:11
14. "Dominoes Fall" 2:43
15. "Liberty and Freedom" 2:45
16. "You Want It, You Got It" 1:36
17. "Locomotive" 1:38
18. "That's Just the Way It Is Now" 2:52
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