Green Day announces its first album in four years: ‘Revolution Radio’

The pop-punk trio Green Day tends to show up with new music around volatile election seasons, and 2016 will be no different.

The band has announced a new 12-track album, “Revolution Radio,” due out Oct. 7 on longtime label Reprise.

The record is the first since 2012’s album-trilogy, “Uno!,” “Dos!” and “Tre!,” their introduction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and Billie Joe Armstrong’s difficult rehab stint.

“Of course the world has lost its collective mind... and me, Mike and Tré are lost souls too,” Armstrong said in a statement accompanying the news. “‘Revolution Radio’ is a movement for lost souls to come together... dance together... sing together... and most of all, find each other. That’s what the spirit of Green Day has been about since day one.”

The first single from the new LP is “Bang Bang,” a old-fashioned punk ripper that alludes to recent school shootings and a culture of angry, narcissistic masculinity.

Green Day, of course, released one of the most successful political-rock records of the 2000s with 2004’s “American Idiot,” which sold 6 million copies and was turned into a successful Broadway play. Perhaps the band can repeat some of that feat this cycle, which will have no shortage of political outrage to draw upon.

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