10 Best Pop Punk Albums Of 2016

It's been a while since the buzz about a Green Day record has largely been positive. Following the immense success of American Idiot, the band seemed unsure what direction to head next, unable to recapture the crazy lightening-in-a-bottle success of that album.

21st Century Breakdown was largely forgettable, and triple release Uno, Dos and Tre, while containing some interesting material, was drowned by the sheer amount of filler.

But Revolution Radio casts grand ambitions aside for a stripped down, more focused release. No longer is the band flailing wildly in a desperate attempt to raise a middle finger to every establishment in existence.

Rather, they're concerned with a more central problem, namely the culture of mass shooting that permeates America, and on a broader level the current state of violence in the United States.

The music may not be complicated and the lyrics might be rote Green Day, but there's an energy and purpose to the songs that hasn't been there for years.