Joyce Manor: Million Dollars to Kill Me 12″

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Joyce Manorare back with the new album,Million Dollars To Kill Me. FrontmanBarry Johnsonalong with co-founding guitaristChase Knobbe, new drummerPat Wareand longtime bassistMatt Ebert, wrote enough songs to fill a full-length, and then worked to get songs lifted from emails between Johnson and one of his musical hero Impossibles’ guitarist/vocalistRory Phillips, with whom he had been co-writing long distance, to match the ones written at full volume. “Bedroom charm versus live rock band,” Johnson explains. Their next step was a new step: their first time recording outside their L.A. hometown, at Converge’s Kurt Ballou’s GodCity studio in Salem, MA. They recorded daily 10-to-6 and then slept right upstairs in bunk beds: “Kinda felt like camp,” adds Johnson. “It was a pleasure I would recommend it to anyone.” If 2016’sCodywas about growing up, thenMillion Dollars ToKill Meis about what happens next the reckonings with love, money, doubt and confusion, and the hope that persists despite it all.