Green Day side-project Pinhead Gunpowder announce new album UNT, share title-track

After some teasing this week, it’s official: Pinhead Gunpowder are back!

The East Bay punks – Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong and touring guitarist Jason White, plus drummer/lyricist Aaron Cometbus and bassist Bill Schneider – have just announced new album UNT, their first new music since 2008’s West Side Highway EP.

The full record is due out on October 18 via 1-2-3-4 Go Records, with the title-track and album opener Unt available to stream today (check it out below).

“Pinhead Gunpowder started writing songs in 1990 and made our first 7” the following spring,” reads a statement from the four-piece. “Nearly every year since, we’ve met up to play. Some years we recorded – five albums and 11 EPs – and some years we played shows.

“But since 2010, we’ve been playing just for ourselves, something bands forget to do. Rather than ‘writing for the new album’ or rehearsing to get ready for tour, we went back to the basement every year. We lived in the house we’d built, remembering how we’d made the music for each other in the first place. We played all over the world – well, at least Oakland, Singapore and New York – but only for each other. We worked on the reissues of our back catalogue, too, and found ourselves fonder of each other and more family-like than ever.

“A new record was only a matter of time, but between the members’ other bands, projects, and families that was hard to find. When we finally did, we were all surprised. We think it’s our best yet – our catchiest, most collaborative, and most poignant.”

Hear Unt right now:

See the UNT tracklist:

1. Unt
2. Difficult But Not Impossible
3. Scum Of The Earth
4. Oh My
5. Nothing Ever Happens
6. Draw It In
7. Shine
8. ¡Hola Canada!
9. Here Goes The Neighborhood
10. Mumbles
11. Green
12. Chowchilla
13. Trash TV
14. Song For Myself

And the album cover:

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