Joyce Manor have announced their fifth full-length album, Million Dollars to Kill Me, will be released September 21 via Epitaph, Pitchfork reports. The new record is produced by Converge’s Kurt Ballou at GodCity Studio in Salem, Massachusetts and mixed by Andrew Scheps who has worked with Weezer, AFI and Green Day.
Joyce Manor hail from Torrance, California and have previously released 4 albums including Joyce Manor (2011), Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired (2012), Never Hungover Again (2014) and Cody (2016).
While recording the new album, members Barry Johnson (guitarist, vocalist), Chase Knobbe (guitarist), Matt Ebert (bassist), and Pat Ware (drummer) fostered creative collaboration by sleeping above the studio in bunk beds. Johnson says the experience “kinda felt like camp.”
The group have released the first single, “Million Dollars to Kill Me,” as well as a lyric video created by Eric Richter. Paste reports the track runs just over two minutes and bounces along with a punk-pop beat. Lyrics like “And one day you will realize / you are nothing, nothing without her/ You’re an asshole from a bar on a break in a break room / And you’re never happy,” center around emotional reflections and relationship challenges.
Additionally, Joyce Manor announced a 22-date headline tour, which kicks off October 9 in Woodstock, NY and runs through November 3 in San Francisco, CA. The band will also headline the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on January 19.
Check out the new lyric video for “Million Dollars to Kill Me,” upcoming tour dates and the tracklist for the new record below.
Tracklist:
1. Fighting Kangaroo
2. Think I’m Still In Love With You
3. Big Lie
4. I’m Not The One
5. Million Dollars To Kill Me
6. Silly Games
7. Friends We Met Online
8. Up the Punx
9. Gone Tomorrow
10. Wildflowers
Joyce Manor Tour Dates
Tue 9-Oct Woodstock, NY Colony
Wed 10-Oct Boston, MA Royale
Thu 11-Oct Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Steel (16 plus)
Fri 12-Oct Asbury Park, NJ Asbury Lanes (18 plus)
Sat 13-Oct Washington, DC Black Cat
Sun 14-Oct Philadelphia, PA Union Transfer
Tue 16-Oct Columbus, OH Skully’s
Wed 17-Oct Cleveland, OH Beachland Ballroom
Thu 18-Oct Toronto, ON Opera House
Fri 19-Oct Detroit, MI Majestic Theatre
Sat 20-Oct Chicago, IL Vic Theatre
Mon 22-Oct Madison, WI High Noon Saloon (18 plus)
Tue 23-Oct Minneapolis, MN Cedar Cultural Center
Wed 24-Oct Des Moines, IA Wooly’s
Fri 26-Oct Denver, CO Summit Music Hall
Sat 27-Oct Salt Lake City, UT In the Venue
Sun 28-Oct Boise, ID Neurolux (21 plus)
Tue 30-Oct Vancouver, BC Biltmore Cabaret (19 plus)
Wed 31-Oct Seattle, WA Neptune
Thu 1-Nov Portland, OR Wonder Ballroom
Sat 3-Nov San Francisco, CA Fillmore
Sat 19-Jan Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Palladium
**10/9-10/20 w/ Vundabar, Big Eyes
**10/22-11/3 w/ Vundabar, Peach Kelli Pop
**1/19 w/ Jeff Rosenstock and special guests
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