PUT your Dookie and Nimrod records back on the shelf and stop living in the 90s because old Green Day fans are being invited back to the party.

Leading the pop punk movement 20 years ago, Green Day became one of the key rock bands of the era.

But unlike many other groups of that time who split up or fell back into obscurity, the California trio attracted a whole new, younger fanbase when they released American Idiot in 2004 which also strangely went on to become a musical.

Green Day's self-produced 12th studio album, Revolution Radio, attempts to bridge the gap between those two fan groups.

It has the same slick sound you would associate with the band's other recent records but it also returns to their back to basics punk sensibilities.

Most of the songs feature fast drums, big riffs and catchy choruses and singer Billie Joe Armstrong, who is more of an icon than a frontman at this point, has rarely sounded better.

Fans know every trick in Green Day's song book by now and the band are certainly not looking to reinvent their sound this time around.

But what makes the chart-topping Revolution Radio work is that the trio are returning to their strengths as musicians and not pretending to be anything that they are not.

As such, lead singles Bang Bang and title track Revolution Radio are among the best songs they have released in more than 10 years.

The record will never have the cultural significance of Dookie or the subversive edge of Insomniac but Revolution Radio should please all fans, even long lost ones.

DAVID MORGAN