Green Day had one idea for what to do next: “Let’s make a mess.” These were the four words uttered by Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool as they stepped into their rehearsal room to begin work on this, the follow-up to 2016’s Revolution Radio. It was a bold mind-set, all things considered. Not only was that album labelled a musical return to form after the sprawling triple-whammy of ¡UNO!, ¡DOS!, ¡TRE!, it was also a colossal success, combining Green Day’s now-signature formula of heartfelt, radio-ready punk rock bangers with a post-American Idiot worldview. It would have been a blueprint worth repeating on Father Of All…. Instead, the Oakland trio have scrapped all that in favour of something altogether more playful, mischievous, and – indeed – messy. You’ll already have s...
