Blackout

Blackout is the fourth studio album by Dropkick Murphys, released in 2003. A music video for "Walk Away", the album's first official single, was also released. The song went on to become a minor radio hit and received some minor airplay on MTV. "Fields of Athenry" was also released as a single.

Allmusic gave Blackout a score of four stars out of five, saying that the album was the band's "tightest material to date" and that it combined the "intensity" of earlier albums with "a bit more polish." PopMatters praised the album by saying "What makes the album work is the band realizing that no song should be filler on a record." They also compared “World Full of Hate” (which they called the highlight of the record) to Green Day's "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" and called "Dirty Glass" a 'modern day' "Fairytale of New York."