While the track record for long-gestating albums from bands multiple decades into their careers is perhaps less-than stellar, Let the Bad Times Roll is a spirited, lively listen that, as Noodles says, proves The Offspring “didn’t go anywhere.” “Ultimately I think we ended up coming out with an even better record after that,” he adds.Īs the album tweaking overlapped with sillier projects, including covering “Here Kitty Kitty” from Tiger King, The Offspring eventually realized they “had to get the record out there to the fans.”” “We’re, like, ‘Well, we don’t want to put a record out when we can’t tour,’ so then we took a look at the record and did more work on it.” “Then, boom, pandemic, no touring,” Noodles says. As guitarist Noodles tells ABC Audio, the band had been working on the new record for much of those nine years, and were even ready to release it after hitting a “real creative time.” Let the Bad Times Roll, the 10th studio effort from the SoCal punks, arrives today, nearly a decade after the group’s last effort, 2012’s Days Go By. The Offspring‘s new album is finally here.