The plan for “Wasted Years” was to create the unpolished feeling of a demo recording, but the final album ended up Off!’s darkest and heaviest, with matching cover artwork again from Raymond Pettibon. From the beginning, the band found an excited audience of punks and tastemakers, praised by Pitchfork and the New York Times alike. The album’s 16 songs build on the original hard-core sound that Off! captured on its 2010 debut, “The First Four EPs,” while somehow sounding fresh and urgent in a digital age.
PHOTOS: Iconic rock guitars and their owners From the beginning, that’s always been a mission statement of ours - to trim the fat, don’t over-think it.” “It gives it that sound of being really close to the edge of not exactly knowing what we’re doing. “Right when we get to that point where we can get through it once or twice - that’s when we hit record,” Coats says later of the sessions. There’s something really cool about that.” We’re just four guys that get in a room and we just go. “We’re fortunate that we get to write what we want to write, we get to play what we want to play,” says Morris, 58, a punk rock originator best known before Off! as the sneering, sardonic singer for the Circle Jerks and Black Flag. (More than half the sales were vinyl LPs.) Off! performs a hometown show Wednesday night at the Roxy. 67 in Billboard’s pop album chart, sky-high by hard-core standards. “Wasted Years” was finally released earlier this month from Vice Records, and first-week sales landed the new album at No.
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