Video: Joyce Manor, ‘Gotta Let It Go’
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Your favorite pop-punk band’s favorite pop-punk band is back. Joyce Manor last week announced their sixth album “40 oz. to Fresno” — out June 10 via Epitaph – with the cathartic, ripping lead single “Gotta Let It Go,” which shows the Torrance trio — Barry Johnson, Chase Knobbe and Matt Ebert – executing airtight hook after airtight hook as Johnson pleads “You’ve gotta let it go.” The sub-two-minute shredder also comes with a video, directed by Mason Mercer, that shows the band delivering a fiery performance at a house party.
The title “40 oz. to Fresno” comes from an auto-corrected text message about Sublime’s 1992 album “40 oz. To Freedom,” but it also nods to Joyce Manor’s Central Valley gigs of yore. “This album makes me think of our early tours, drinking a 40 in the van on a night drive blasting Guided By Voices and smoking cigarettes the whole way to Fresno,” Johnson says.
Their first new full-length since 2018’s “Million Dollars to Kill Me,” “40 oz. to Fresno” was produced by previous Joyce Manor collaborator Rob Schnapf, mixed by Tony Hoffer and features Tony Thaxton on drums.
||| Watch: The video for “Gotta Let It Go”
||| Live: Joyce Manor performs along with the Story So Far, Mom Jeans and Microwave on May 7 at the Shrine LA Outdoors. Tickets.
||| Previously: Live at the Glass House, live at the Palladium, “Million Dollars to Kill Me,” live at the Regent
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