( EW.com ) -- The 65-year-old Priestess of Punk recently roared back into the zeitgeist thanks to her National Book Award-winning 2010 memoir , `` Just Kids . '' So perhaps it makes sense that Patti Smith 's 11th album is her most energized in years , if not decades . Relieved of the protest poetry of 2004 's enjoyable but politically burdened `` Trampin ' , '' `` Banga '' feels like both a return to form and a renewal -- with Lenny Kaye 's Sonic Youth-ful guitar meshing with Smith 's literary lyricism the way it did when they were , well , just kids . Grade : A- . See the full story at EW.com . CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly . © 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved .
Patti Smith 's 11th album is her most energized in years . `` Banga '' feels like both a return to form and a renewal . The album comes out on June 5 .