Billie Joe Armstrong confirms Green Day are working on new music

Billie Armstrong has confirmed that Green Day are working on new music.

Responding to a fan on Instagram, the frontman wrote: "I'm writing new songs for gd now." He didn't, however, provide any further details of when the album will be released and what exactly it will consist of.

The last album released by the band was 2016's Revolution Radio, which received largely positive reviews from critics and debuted in the US at number one on the Billboard 200 chart.

The Independent's Andy Gill wrote: "There’s a frustrating disjunction between intention and execution on Green Day’s Revolution Radio, which Billie Joe Armstrong has explained is meant to reflect the violent culture of American society these days."

"To be fair, tracks like “Bang Bang”, exploring the deadly alliance of guns, fame and social media, bear out his claim; but there’s little point preaching peace when your music is so exultantly explosive."

Green Day, however, returned to the UK charts earlier this year, when "American Idiot" dipped in and out of the iTunes Top 10 ahead of Donald Trump's visit.

The track was originally written in part about President George W. Bush and features lyrics such as: "Don't wanna be an American idiot/One nation controlled by the media/Information Age of hysteria/It's calling out to idiot America."

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