Let the Dominoes Fall
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| Studio album by Rancid | ||||
| Released | June 2, 2009 | |||
| Recorded | January 2008-February 2009 | |||
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| Genre | Punk rock, ska punk, street punk | |||
| Length | 46:16 | |||
| Label | Hellcat | |||
| Producer | Brett Gurewitz | |||
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| IGN | (8.8/10) |
| Robert Christgau |
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| The Kill Times | (favorable) |
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Let the Dominoes Fall is the seventh studio album by the American punk rock band Rancid. It is their first album of new material in nearly six years, following 2003's Indestructible, and their first with drummer Branden Steineckert, who joined the band in 2006 after the departure of founding drummer Brett Reed.
The span of nearly six years between Indestructible and Let the Dominoes Fall was Rancid's longest gap between studio albums in their career. The band had begun working on new material after their temporary hiatus in 2004, but showed no signs of a new album until January 2008, when they announced that they had begun recording with producer and Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz. The writing and recording process was finally finished in February 2009.
Following the release of Indestructible in 2003, the group became dormant with each of the members either touring or releasing albums with other bands. After a break in 2004, Rancid began writing their follow-up to Indestructible a year later. In November 2005, it was announced that the band had begun working on a "large amount of new material" for the album and guitarist Lars Frederiksen mentioned that it would surface sometime in 2006. On April 13, 2006, Rancid posted a large update to their MySpace page and mentioned that the album would be released in the spring of 2007.
For sometime later, it was announced that the release date had been changed to summer/fall 2007, despite frontman Tim Armstrong's solo tour schedule, supporting his first album A Poet's Life. On November 3, it was announced that drummer Brett Reed left the band. His position was filled in by Branden Steineckert, formally of The Used. Alternative Press mentioned that the group was going to record a new album in early 2007, with a projected mid-2007 release date. On June 12, 2007, Steineckert posted on his MySpace blog stating that members of Rancid were expected to get back together in the fall to begin writing the album, then resume recording it in January 2008. In December of that year, it was reported that Rancid had finished writing the album.
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