Joyce Manor announce new album, I Used To Go To This Bar

Joyce Manor have just announced their seventh album I Used To Go To This Bar – the follow-up to 2022’s ace 40 Oz. To Fresno.

Due out on January 30 via Epitaph, the record was produced by the legendary Brett Gurewitz, and unsurprisingly frontman Barry Johnson calls the experience “amazing. When it comes to our musical DNA, he’s one of the architects of everything we grew up on. Having him guide our record helped us make something that we could put next to those classic records that shaped us.”

“Joyce Manor are a quintessential South Bay punk band,” enthuses Brett himself. “But unlike their peers they’re writing timeless songs for the American Songbook. If Barry was a novelist, he’d be Ernest Hemingway. To me, they’re among the most important bands of the last two decades.”

Joyce Manor are previewing what’s to come with new single Well, Whatever It Was, which also comes with a Great British Bake Off parody video. Barry calls the track “one of the most Southern California sounding songs ever recorded. I hear Jane’s Addiction in the verses, Beach Boys / Weezer in the chorus, and RHCP in the outro. It was literally produced by the guy from Bad Religion FFS. Everyone was just firing on all cylinders for this one. Joey Waronker’s drumming, TLA’s mix, and Lenny Castro’s percussion all just sent it to the end-zone. This song would go insanely hard in a Shrek film…”

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