Rise Against wrote sixteen songs across sessions that ran from 2019 straight into the pandemic, and rather than toss the extras, the Chicago punk band just split them into two releases. Nowhere Generation II is the surprise back half, the band's eleventh EP, cut at the Blasting Room with Bill Stevenson and Jason Livermore at the controls. It's less a victory lap than a second helping of the same argument, younger generations stuck navigating a world somebody else built.
