A home-recorded, stopgap release for the non-secular Green Day, The Renaissance EP intends to take the band's own early, ostensibly anarcho-Christian thrashing about and combine it with their later, relatively major-label polish.
"This is our interpretation of what our first three records may have sounded like if we had recorded the songs at the present time," says frontman Mike Herrera.
The thing is, though, is that the band's progress has hardly shown the widest grasp.
MxPx knows their way around a pop-punk hook -- which is more than one can say about much of the so-called punk revival -- but their tiresome riffing and bankrupt loyalty to a bygone era keeps them relegated to preaching to the converted, while the recombination of their own DNA, well-intentioned or not, still more or less sounds like Adverts records for the kind of guy who has all of the Tony Hawk combos memorized.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lonesome TownMike Herrera | MxPx | Play | 02:19 | 5 MB | 16 MB |
| 2 | Letting GoMike Herrera | MxPx | Play | 02:21 | 5 MB | 16 MB |
| 3 | Party II (Time to Go)Mike Herrera | MxPx | Play | 02:18 | 5 MB | 16 MB |
| 4 | Time Will TellMike Herrera | MxPx | Play | 01:28 | 3 MB | 10 MB |
| 5 | The OppositeMike Herrera | MxPx | Play | 01:43 | 3 MB | 12 MB |
| 6 | Don't Look BackMike Herrera | MxPx | Play | 02:38 | 6 MB | 18 MB |
| 7 | Talk of the TownMike Herrera | MxPx | Play | 01:42 | 3 MB | 11 MB |
| 8 | The StruggleMike Herrera | MxPx | Play | 02:01 | 4 MB | 14 MB |
| 9 | Yuri Wakes Up ScreamingMike Herrera | MxPx | Play | 01:34 | 3 MB | 10 MB |
| 18 mins | 41 MB | |||||
| 18 mins | 127 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mike Herrera | Composer, Engineer |
| 2 | MxPx | Primary Artist, Producer |
| 3 | John Reid | Artwork, Layout Design |
| 4 | Yuri Ruley | Cymbals, Drums, Engineer, Mixing, Percussion, Producer |
| 5 | Eddy Schreyer | Mastering |
| 6 | Tom Wisniewski | Engineer, Guitar, Mixing, Producer |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |