CMJ NEW MUSIC REPORT - insomniac review astoundingly great must have been the pressure on this multi-platinum threesome when they reentered the studio to follow up their pop punk popularity-forging dookie, but they surprised us and everyone else when they emerged with an album that's anything but dookie pt. 2.  insomniac shows a darker and coarser expanse of the teenage wasteland than the band's technicolor dookie, and it may not only be the sleeper hit of the coming year, but the album that ultimately speaks to the band's creative fortuity. under the microscope of massive commercial success, billie joe and co. held fast to their sense of cultural alienation and produced some of their most uncompromising work.