The Process of Belief

Philosophical treatises disguised as two-minute rock blasts? Fiery, hook-filled salvos about the Kyoto Protocol? Ah, it must be the new Bad Religion album. It’s been more than 20 years since these brainy SoCal pioneers began ranting about society’s ills, but their latest makes it clear that little has changed. Granted, each of these songs sounds like a half-dozen other Bad Religion tunes, but no one else gets us to sing along to lines like “The arid torpor of inaction will be our demise.”