Rolling Stone looks at Green Day's "21st Century Breakdown"

The second mainstream review of Green Day's forthcoming album, 21st Century Breakdown has been posted and unlike the Spin review, Rolling Stone gave the record 4.5/5, saying:

21st Century Breakdown is even better, so masterful and confident it makes Idiot seem like a warm-up. But there are no nine-minute excursions this time and Green Day focused their ideas into their sharpest, toughest tunes. [...] All over the album, Green Day combine punk thrash with their newfound love of classic-rock grandiosity -- one moment they're quoting Bikini Kill, the next they're wailing away like it's the final minute of"Jungleland."

The ballads are their glossiest ever and don't think for a minute they don't love the idea of pissing people off with that. But the highlights are the rage-fueled punk anthems. mostly they're singing about America waking up from an eight-year nightmare.

Check it out here.