Long-running Israeli punks Useless ID have announced their best-of album, Most Useless Songs, will be out May 7 via Fat Wreck Chords. The band have also dropped a new single/video, “Same Old Revolution”.
Vocalist and bass player, Yotam Ben-Horin describes Most Useless Songs:
“[The album is] songs that work best live, songs that have stood the test of time, songs that carry an interesting story, and songs that have been regulars in our sets throughout the years. It was hard for us to narrow it down, since we think there are a few more songs that could’ve been on the ‘best of’. But we thought, ‘What if we released an album of the songs we play live and in the order we do them? How would that go?”
“I think this compilation shows our growth throughout the years. We never stuck to one sound in punk rock, and I think that’s what defines our band as well. We can do a simple pop-punk song like ‘Night Shift’ and still be able to play something like ‘Isolate Me,’ and it won’t be weird because it’s the same band with the same sound.”
Most Useless Songs reaches as far back as the 1999 Fat Wreck Chords compilation Short Music For Short People (“Too Bad You Don’t Get It”), but otherwise draws from the band’s 2000s output, such as No Vacation from the World (2003), Redemption (2005), The Lost Broken Bones (2008), Symptoms (2012), and State is Burning (2016). The liner notes feature commentary about all 16 tracks from Useless ID, which also includes guitarist Ishay Berger, guitarist Guy Carmel, and drummer Corey Ben Yehuda.
The two new tracks on Most Useless Songs, “Same Old Revolution” and “Into the Exquisite,” show that evolution, while still sounding unmistakably Useless ID.
Ben-Horin adds how these two new tracks could mean more new material from the band in the near future:
“When we recorded the new songs for the ‘best of,’ we were reminded how much fun we have making music together”.
Check out the video for “Same Old Revolution” below, and pre-order Most Useless Songs here.
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Most Useless Songs tracklist:
1. State of Fear
2. Isolate Me
3. Night Shift
4. It’s Alright
5. How to Dismantle an Atom Bomb
6. Turn Up the Stereo
7. Jukebox 86
8. Too Bad You Don’t Get It
9. Symptoms
10. Night Stalker
11. Dying Love
12. At Least I Tried
13. New Misery
14. State is Burning
15. Same Old Revolution
16. Into the Exquisite
Images courtesy of Useless ID.
