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For their fifth full-length After the Party, The Menzingers set out to make the quintessential jukebox record: an unstoppably melodic album primed for bar-room sing-alongs.
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The Menzingers
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Delivering anthemic harmonies, furious power chords, and larger-than-life melodies, the Philadelphia-based garage-punk four-piece amply fulfills that mission while achieving something much more deeply nuanced. With its delicately crafted storytelling and everyman romanticism, After the Partyultimately proves to be a wistful but life-affirming reflection on getting older but not quite growing up. "
We spent our 20s living in a rowdy kind of way, and now we' re at a point where it seems like everyone in our lives is moving in different directions," says Tom May, who joined fellow singer/guitarist Greg Barnett, bassist Eric Keen, and drummer Joe Godino in forming The Menzingers as teenagers in their hometown of Scranton. Adds Barnett: "We're turning 30 now, and there's this idea that that's when real life comes on. In a way this album is us saying, 'We don't have to grow up or get boring—we can keep on having a good time doing what we love.'"
The Menzingers explore the tension between recklessness and responsibility all throughout After the Party, with the chorus to its opening track " 20's (Tellin' Lies)" brashly asking "Where are we gonna go now that our twenties are over?" On lead single "Lookers"—as in, "You were such a looker in the old days"—the band pays loving tribute to their time spent in Asbury Park, weaving in memories of smoke-filled diners and Jersey-girl heartbreakers. Equally soaked in nostalgia, the bittersweet yet blistering "Midwestern States" offers what Barnett calls "an ode to being in our early 20s and touring across the country for the first time, and just how eye-opening that all was for us." On "Bad Catholics," meanwhile, The Menzingers match their heavy riffs and high-powered rhythms with a gorgeously detailed narrative of running into a lost love at a hometown church picnic.
Produced by Will Yip (Title Fight, Balance & Composure, Pianos Become the Teeth) and recorded in Yip's Conshohocken, Pennsylvania-based Studio 4, After the Party finds the band breaking into new sonic terrain, such as in the stripped-down reverie of " Black Mass" and the drinking-song-inspired waltz of "Bars." At the same ti
The Menzingers
https://youtu.be/GtHE4AoNRV4
Delivering anthemic harmonies, furious power chords, and larger-than-life melodies, the Philadelphia-based garage-punk four-piece amply fulfills that mission while achieving something much more deeply nuanced. With its delicately crafted storytelling and everyman romanticism, After the Partyultimately proves to be a wistful but life-affirming reflection on getting older but not quite growing up. "
We spent our 20s living in a rowdy kind of way, and now we' re at a point where it seems like everyone in our lives is moving in different directions," says Tom May, who joined fellow singer/guitarist Greg Barnett, bassist Eric Keen, and drummer Joe Godino in forming The Menzingers as teenagers in their hometown of Scranton. Adds Barnett: "We're turning 30 now, and there's this idea that that's when real life comes on. In a way this album is us saying, 'We don't have to grow up or get boring—we can keep on having a good time doing what we love.'"
The Menzingers explore the tension between recklessness and responsibility all throughout After the Party, with the chorus to its opening track " 20's (Tellin' Lies)" brashly asking "Where are we gonna go now that our twenties are over?" On lead single "Lookers"—as in, "You were such a looker in the old days"—the band pays loving tribute to their time spent in Asbury Park, weaving in memories of smoke-filled diners and Jersey-girl heartbreakers. Equally soaked in nostalgia, the bittersweet yet blistering "Midwestern States" offers what Barnett calls "an ode to being in our early 20s and touring across the country for the first time, and just how eye-opening that all was for us." On "Bad Catholics," meanwhile, The Menzingers match their heavy riffs and high-powered rhythms with a gorgeously detailed narrative of running into a lost love at a hometown church picnic.
Produced by Will Yip (Title Fight, Balance & Composure, Pianos Become the Teeth) and recorded in Yip's Conshohocken, Pennsylvania-based Studio 4, After the Party finds the band breaking into new sonic terrain, such as in the stripped-down reverie of " Black Mass" and the drinking-song-inspired waltz of "Bars." At the same ti
