** Bad Religion, “The New America,” Atlantic.

Over the past 20 years, Bad Religion has settled into a formulaic existence--which is just fine for those who can’t get enough of the quartet’s mix of meaty melodies, punk-rock philosophizing and hard-core anima. Its latest (scheduled for release on Tuesday) has a few offbeat moments (notably the vaguely twangy, mellow “Whisper in Time”), but for the most part it’s business as usual, adept and methodical. The band appears with Blink-182 next Friday at the Great Western Forum.

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