Dropkick Murphys – Turn Up That Dial (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Dropkick Murphys – Turn Up That Dial (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:12 minutes | 929 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dummy Luck Music

In good Times and bad times, we turn to music. Our record collections and playlists carry us through any hardships, adversities, and trouble the world throws our way. When you press play, the pain just goes away. It’s why we listen in the first place. And that’s what dropkick Murphy set out to do – and definitely accomplished – on the new album turn up that dial. They boot in the front door of 2021 with a record that punches you square in the face and says, in the words of Ken Casey, “get up, get out of those sweatpants you’ve been wearing for the last year…Better times are ahead – Let’s f-in’ Go!!”.

Boston’s unofficial house band Dropkick Murphys returned after an absence of four years with their tenth set Turn Up That Dial. Rousing and raucous as ever, the album doesn’t veer far from their tried-and-true formula of Celtic-influenced punk anthems. In addition to expected fare such as “Middle Finger” and “Smash Shit Up,” the boys get serious with the politically charged “Chosen Few” — both an observation of American society during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic and an indictment of U.S. presidential leadership during that time — and “I Wish You Were Here,” a midtempo ballad dedicated to vocalist Al Barr’s late father and other lives lost to the coronavirus. Aside from that final somber moment, the rest of the LP is an absolute blast, yet another collection of reliable singalongs to “Oi!” your cares away. – Neil Z. Yeung

Tracklist:

1-1. Dropkick Murphys – Turn Up That Dial (03:42)
1-2. Dropkick Murphys – L-EE-B-O-Y (03:23)
1-3. Dropkick Murphys – Middle Finger (02:35)
1-4. Dropkick Murphys – Queen Of Suffolk County (03:51)
1-5. Dropkick Murphys – Mick Jones Nicked My Pudding (02:40)
1-6. Dropkick Murphys – H.B.D.M.F. (04:07)
1-7. Dropkick Murphys – Good As Gold (03:20)
1-8. Dropkick Murphys – Smash Shit Up (03:49)
1-9. Dropkick Murphys – Chosen Few (03:31)
1-10. Dropkick Murphys – City By The Sea (03:47)
1-11. Dropkick Murphys – I Wish You Were Here (04:21)