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Saviors (2024)
Where the lyrics of Saviors take you, and where it was really made.
The album cover is a 1978 riot photo from Belfast, and the face of the young man in it was altered to look more smiling.
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Recording in London at RAK Studios (2024)
Recording site RAK Studios — Saviors was recorded in London, England, and Los Angeles, California. This pin marks RAK Studios in London, one of the two recording sites named for the album. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Recording in Los Angeles at Henson Recording Studios (2024)
Recording site A&M Recording Studios — Saviors was recorded in London, England, and Los Angeles, California. This pin marks Henson Recording Studios in Los Angeles, the other recording site named for the album. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Cover photo street in Belfast (2024)
Album cover Falls Road — The album cover is based on a 1978 photo taken at a riot in Northern Ireland. This pin marks the Falls Road in Belfast, the street where the photo was taken, at city-street level only. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Album story
Overview
- Saviors: 14th studio album by the American rock band Green Day
- Released January 19, 2024 through Reprise Records
- Received generally positive reviews from critics
- Promoted through five singles: "The American Dream Is Killing Me", "Look Ma, No Brains!", "Dilemma", "One Eyed Bastard", "Bobby Sox"
- Supported by the Saviors Tour: 87 shows across six continents
Background
- Billie Joe Armstrong said seven songs did not make it onto the previous album, Father of All Motherfuckers (2020)
- That album was produced by Butch Walker and met with mixed reviews
- Rob Cavallo produced Saviors; he had worked with the band on most earlier albums, including Dookie (1994) and American Idiot (2004)
- By 2022, the band had not worked with Cavallo for almost 10 years, since ¡Tré! (2012)
- Early reports said the album would be titled 1972, the year all three members were born
- The band announced the album on October 24, 2023, with its lead single
Recording
- Recorded in London, England, and Los Angeles, California
- The lead single was the first track written for the album, but it was kept aside for a while before being recorded
Cover
- Edited version of a photo taken in 1978 by Chris Steele-Perkins at a riot during the Troubles in Northern Ireland
- Shows a youth named Paul Kennedy holding a stone and shrugging on the Falls Road, Belfast
- In the final version, the young man's face was altered to look more smiling
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Artist
Formation
- Green Day is an American rock band formed in Rodeo, California, in 1987 by Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt.
- Drummer Tré Cool joined in 1990, and the band has mostly been a power trio since.
- Before taking the name Green Day in 1989, the band was called Sweet Children.
- The band emerged from the late 1980s and early 1990s Bay Area punk scene centered on 924 Gilman Street in Berkeley.
- Early releases came through Lookout! Records, including the debut album 39/Smooth (1990).
Career
- Dookie (1994, Reprise Records) became a breakout success and sold over 20 million copies in the United States.
- Green Day is credited with reigniting mainstream interest in punk rock.
- Insomniac (1995) and Nimrod (1997) reached double platinum; Warning (2000) was certified gold.
- American Idiot (2004), a rock opera, found popularity with a younger generation and sold six million copies in the US.
- The trilogy ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, and ¡Tré! was released in 2012; it did not match earlier commercial success.
- Later albums include Revolution Radio (2016), Father of All Motherfuckers (2020), and Saviors (2024).
- A stage adaptation of American Idiot opened on Broadway in 2010 and received three Tony nominations.
- The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015, its first year of eligibility.
- The band has sold roughly 75 million records worldwide as of 2024 and won five Grammy Awards.
Reception
At release
- Metacritic gave it 73 out of 100 based on 21 critics' reviews, a generally favorable reception
- DIY's Emma Swann praised it as an outstanding record that mixes biting social commentary with pop-punk songs
- NME's Andrew Trendell called it Green Day's best album since American Idiot
- Uncut wrote that the band delivers 15 compact, mostly pro forma songs
- AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that age has sharpened the band's songcraft
Reappraisal
- Loudwire ranked it as the 10th best rock album of 2024
Records
- Billboard 200 debut: number four with 49,000 album-equivalent units, including 39,000 pure album sales
- UK: debuted at number one with 31,361 album-equivalent units
- As of April 2024, 108,000 album-equivalent units sold in the United States, almost 200,000 worldwide
- Nominated for Best Rock Album at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards (ceremony February 2, 2025)
- "Dilemma" nominated for Best Rock Song; "The American Dream is Killing Me" nominated for Best Rock Performance
- First Grammy nominations for the band since ¡Cuatro! (2013) was nominated for Best Music Film in 2014
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Trivia
- Early reports said the album would be titled 1972, the year all three members were born; teasers on social media first dated to December 2021.
- Armstrong said "Look Ma, No Brains!" was his favorite track on the album and one of the greatest punk songs he had written.
- On January 16, 2024, the band played a surprise set at the 47th–50th Streets–Rockefeller Center subway station in New York, with Jimmy Fallon joining on tambourine.
- On January 13, 2024, six days before release, the band held listening parties at independent record stores around the world.
- "Dilemma" was released on December 7, 2023, with a Christmas-themed music video.
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