After 23 years and plenty of member changes, NOFX is done work on their 15th full-length album. The upcoming album is titled “Wolves in Wolves’ Clothing,” and it is scheduled to come out on April 18. But for those anxious NOFX fans, they just recently put out their 18th EP dubbed “Never Trust a Hippy.” It contains six new controversial songs, two of which will be on their new album.
I’ll be the first to admit that I was never a NOFX fan, not because I didn’t like them, just because I never really took the time to listen to them. I constantly hear positive things about them, but I just never took the time to listen to their albums. I was introduced to their music about two years ago with “Franco Un-American,” which I was immediately impressed with. I never listened to politically charged music before, and I loved it. After that though, I never listened to anything else. Now that I’ve listened to this EP, I feel that I let myself down. Every song is religiously and politically charged, and they will have you both nodding your head and laughing at each cruel joke.
Every song is as energetic as the next and will keep you coming back for more. There is one song that is an exception. It is the acoustic ballad “You’re Wrong,” which is one of the best on the EP. It could easily be used as an anthem for today’s youth and their fluent anti-Bush beliefs. The one let down about “Never Trust a Hippy” is that it runs for only 15 minutes.
For current members Eric Sandin, Eric Melvin, El Hefe and Fat Mike this is their first work that’s been put out since 2004’s “The Greatest Songs Ever Written (by us),” and it is looking pretty promising.
Posted to the web by Brandon Edwards
