On September 21, Joyce Manor will release their fifth full-length effort, Million Dollars to Kill Me. The album follows 2016's critically lauded release Cody.
Today, Joyce Manor have shared a lyric video for the title track from Million Dollars to Kill Me. With its Britpop-esque hooks and driving guitar riffs, "Million Dollars to Kill Me" centers on Joyce Manor's understated-yet-poignant lyrics (e.g., "Nobody tells you it hurts to be loved"). Produced by Converge's Kurt Ballou, Million Dollars to Kill Me came to life at Ballou's own GodCity Studio in Salem, Massachusetts. During the recording process, Joyce Manor guitarist/vocalist Barry Johnson, guitarist Chase Knobbe, bassist Matt Ebert, and new drummer Pat Ware slept right upstairs in bunk beds. "Kinda felt like camp," Johnson notes. Additionally, Million Dollars to Kill Me was mixed by Andrew Scheps (Weezer, AFI, Green Day). While Cody focused on growing up, Million Dollars to Kill Me looks at what happens next: reckonings with love, money, doubt, confusion, and the hope that persists despite it all. Throughout the album, Joyce Manor augment that tension with their layered guitar work: Knobbe's uncommon ability to make songs sound sadder and tougher at the same time, Johnson's flair for mixing minor and major chords to invoke a precise kind of overpowering melancholy.Fighting Kangaroo
Think I'm Still In Love With You
Big Lie
I'm Not The One
Million Dollars To Kill Me
Silly Games
Friends We Met Online
Up the Punx
Gone Tomorrow
Wldflowers
JOYCE MANOR - NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
Tue 9-Oct Woodstock, NY ColonyPhoto Credit: Don Monick
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