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2021 reissue, 2×12″ LP, Epitaph.
Billed as the official follow-up to their career defining high point And Out Come The Wolves, the fourth full-length from Los Angeles punk legends Rancid marked their only work to that point not to feature producer/engineer Brett Gurewitz (Bad Religion) in any capacity, with Tim Armstrong and Lance Frederiksen opting to handle production duties themselves. This likely is where the project’s deeper embracing of reggae and ska began to seep into the compositions, with cuts ‘Hoover Street’ and the essential title-track ‘Life Won’t Wait’ both being recorded in Kingston under the tutelage of several essential reggae artists such as Buju Banton, leading to the definitive outlier in the Rancid canon.
