As they prepare to release three new studio albums this fall and winter, Green Day have spent the last month perched atop the Billboard rock chart with "Oh Love," their first single in more than two years. Peeling away the layers of theatricality and protest that featured prominently on the group's last two albums (the epic saga of American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown, turned into a hit Broadway musical in 2010), "Oh Love" feels like a throwback to the Green Day of yore, full of heavy guitar and slacker ambition. Yet the rebel spirit has not been completely abandoned amongst less charged subject matter, judging by the witty imagery of the chorus ("I'm wearing my heart on a noose"). Now if only there had been a little more editing; after five minutes, the song's peppy punch loses steam. B
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