Last Wednesday, Daily Local News talked to The Offspring guitarist Noodles, who explains why the long-waits between their last three albums, Splinter, Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace and Days Go By, which were released in 2003, 2008 and this year respectively. He states:

“There are reasons it takes a long time between albums. After you do a record, you do at least a year of touring and then you need some time off. Making the new record took two years — on and off. Some of the songs really changed over two years. The song ‘Days Go By’ really changed a lot. As we kept recording, we just tried to tweak things — not change them too much. Sometimes when recording a song, you get to a point where you need to step back, wait for a couple weeks and then go back to it. We found that some songs got tweaked too much and we had to dial back a little. With ‘OC Guns’, there was so much going on, we had to take out a little. Some of the songs on the new album sound like they could be from a different era. The last two songs on the album could have been on our ‘Ignition’ album which we made 20 years ago. Our music keeps evolving. We want to take what we do and go farther. But, we always keep in mind our roots and where we came from. We don’t ever want to be a prog rock band.”

The Offspring’s latest album Days Go By came out last June on Columbia Records. The band is currently touring in support of it.