JOYCE MANOR returns with Songs From Northern Torrance: a collection of b-sides and alternate versions of fan favorites pulled from the band's personal archives.
In a tight 28 minutes, Holy Ghost covers an impressive emotional range, with co-songwriters Jacob Ewald and Brendan Lukens literally splitting the record in half.
These tuneful songs convey how it feels to be young and hopeless in modern America - a cracked cellphone clutched in one's hand, subconsciously refreshing social media, hoping to get noticed by that girl at the party.
Joyce Manor are California pop-punk legends and I Used To Go To This Bar is this epochal band operating at the top of their game. They deliver relentlessly satisfying rock music in a manner that makes it look simply effortless.
Joyce Manor are California pop-punk legends and I Used To Go To This Bar is this epochal band operating at the top of their game. They deliver relentlessly satisfying rock music in a manner that makes it look simply effortless.
Saturdays at Your Place take everything that made their early material resonate-twinkly guitars, heart-on-sleeve songwriting, a distinctly Midwestern ache-and stretch it into something even more resonant.
In the years since it's release, American Football's self-titled debut full-length has quietly become one of the most fiercely beloved titles in the Polyvinyl catalog.
More than a decade into their career, the trio continue to refine it's nuanced alloy of industrial, goth, and post-punk to a new level of all-consuming fullness