Not that Green Day ever really change things up too drastically, but Saviors feels intended as a return to form. It’s their first album with longtime producer Rob Cavallo in over a decade, and for the most part, it streamlines their sound and hones in on the kinds of Green Day songs that have always been most popular–looks like they’ve gotten the Hives/Black Keys impressions of 2020’s Father of All Motherfuckers out of their systems. Saviors comes ahead of a stadium tour that will find Green Day playing American Idiot and Dookie in full for their 20th and 30th anniversaries, respectively, and it combines the punchiness of the latter with the stadium-sized pomp of the former, without any of the former’s rock opera inclinations. It is not an album that takes you...
