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October 11, 2008,
This hard-touring Chicago quartet has spent the last few years adding polish to its earnest protest punk, an effort that's been rewarded handily at modern rock radio. Yet Rise Against's heightened profile hasn't led to a change of focus. On "Appeal to Reason," the band's third major-label set, singer Tim McIlrath is still concerned with the plight of the little guy and how his welfare often gets short shrift "From Heads Unworthy," as McIlrath puts it in one track. Beyond the acoustic "Hero of War," there's nothing here you haven't heard before from Rise Against—or, indeed, from Bad Religion before that. But producers Bill Stevenson (of the Descendents and All) and Jason Livermore keep the music moving at a breakneck pace that gives everything the gleam of urgency anyway.—Mikael Wood
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nonenoneOct. 7RISE AGAINSTAppeal to ReasonROCKBill Stevenson, Jason LivermoreDGC/Interscope49Features
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