The hugely-anticipated follow-up to the six-times platinum American Idiot is brazenly honest and immensely powerful – all the things that fans have come to expect from this phenomenal rock trio.
Produced by seminal musician/producer Butch Vig, the man behind Nirvana's Nevermind and The Smashing Pumpkins' Siamese Dream, 21st Century Breakdown continues in the same rock opera vein as Green Day's last knockout album. The 18-track opus maintains a loose but obvious narrative thread throughout, one based upon two people struggling with the issues of modern urban America. As music bible Rolling Stone puts it, this is "a record of die-hard punk ideals ... tightly scripted, continually ascending classic-rock excitement".