Joyce Manor - I Used To Go To This Bar (Album Review) - Stereoboard UK

Joyce Manor - I Used To Go To This Bar (Album Review) - Stereoboard UK

Photo: Dan Monick With Joyce Manor averaging a runtime of 19 minutes across their seven studio albums, every second counts when you hit play. Known for trimming the fat from their explosive punk tunes until all that remains are mighty pop hooks and pure emotion, their latest full-length sticks to the band’s tried-and-tested philosophy.

Joyce Manor: I Used to Go to This Bar

Pop punk, as a genre, is not a useful construct. The term smacks of immaturity, skater kids in backwards caps pulling stupid pranks and singing snotty songs about getting wasted the night before. It’s also far too wide-ranging a field to provide good comparison points. Green Day is pop punk, but so are Machine Gun Kelly and Panic! At the Disco. All they share between them are loud guitars, big hooks and a certain generalized attitude. Joyce Mano…

Joyce Manor’s ‘I Used To Go To This Bar’ kind of rocks

.flex_cell.av-2xcpwis4-e2f5132bbe4088c0a5462b0a90dca7aa{ vertical-align:top; } Joyce Manor’s ‘I Used To Go To This Bar’ kind of rocks The veteran punk rockers’ new album still packs all the punch of angsty teens. #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-797hjua-48427ff9f0060452d72522d6fe41eb0f{ height:10px; } For fans of: Weezer, The All-American Rejects 3 #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-81v9ree-49f9609515cb0085658c3b10eb8bf76e{ height:10px; } By NINA KREMER Februar…