Renown for their assaultive sonics, Symptoms of a Leveling Spirit finds Good Riddance huddling ever closer to the melodic punk sound they've been moving towards over the few preceding years. While the arrival of new drummer Dave Wagenschutz, with his varied rhythms and adept tempo changes, helps bolster the band's confidence to pursue new musical directions, Symptoms is Good Riddance's most eclectic to date. Of course, it's still a punk album, but the group now run the full gamut of su...   [ read more ]

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?Operation Phoenix doesn't deviate much from Good Riddance's established pattern of stinging melodic punk and raging socially conscious lyrics, but it's a fine, well-executed take on that formula that ranks with the best of their work.? ~ Steve Huey, All Music Guide

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?For God and Country is quite a mature and focused debut, thanks largely to the leadership of singer Russ Rankin, whose deep personal convictions give the band an intelligently idealistic variation on SoCal punk, which tended to be prankish and silly in the 1990s (when most bands were trying to copy NOFX). And, unlike many punk bands with a message, Good Riddance consistently avoid the clichT of bellowing hollow antiestablishment mantras with no real meaning or thought behind them; songs like Flies First ...   [ read more ]

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