RELEASE DATE: 9/19/25
Lighten Up (Fat Wreck Chords) the SoCal punk group Bad Cop Bad Cop's fourth full-length, paints a striking portrait of life's hard-won victories and hard-fought losses. Recorded at the Compound in Long Beach, home to veteran producer Antoine Arvizu (Sublime, Ryan Bingham).
Bad Cop Bad Cop stretched their signature hooky, melodic punk into unexpected places, like the jazzy "Las Ventanas," the dub-inflected "Note to Self," or "Johnny Appleseed," a reimagining of the Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros classic.
Track Listing:
1 All Together Now
2 Strugglinh
3 Straight Out of Detox
4 Note to Self
5 Disbelief
6 See Me Now
7 Human Is Human
8 I4Ni
9 Las Ventanas
10 Dead Friends
11 Johnny Appleseed