This Addiction

With This Addiction, the seventh full-length by Chicago pop-punk stalwart Alkaline Trio, frontman Matt Skiba and crew have decided to inflict that hoariest of clichés—the “return to roots” album—upon the world. It’s a damn good thing they nailed it. Many bands use such a move as a desperate ploy to reestablish…

This Addiction was promoted as a return to roots for the Alkaline Trio, no doubt as a ploy to bait old fans who have been waiting over ten years for the second coming of Goddamnit!

For anyone with even a passing familiarity with the Alkaline Trio, it will come as very little surprise that the band has chosen their 13th year to make a...

Alkaline Trio - This Addiction review: Alk3 would not know how to make a bad album, but This Addiction sees them well past their best.