From Exile The Menzingers

• 1 America (You're Freaking Me Out) (From Exile) 02:43
• 2 Anna (From Exile) 03:17
• 3 High School Friend (From Exile) 04:12
• 4 Last To Know (From Exile) 03:59
• 5 Strangers Forever (From Exile) 03:15
• 6 Hello Exile (From Exile) 05:01
• 7 Portland (From Exile) 02:41
• 8 Strain Your Memory (From Exile) 03:59
• 9 I Can't Stop Drinking (From Exile) 05:03
• 10 Strawberry Mansion (From Exile) 03:05
• 11 London Drugs (From Exile) 03:39
• 12 Farewell Youth (From Exile) 03:58
• Total Runtime 44:52

Info for From Exile

The Menzingers were on tour in Australia when the world seemed to abruptly stop due to COVID-19, forcing the band to cut their tour short and make their way back to Philadelphia. “The live music industry vanished before our eyes, and just like that we were out of work like tens of millions of others,” notes singer/guitarists Greg Barnett. “As the weeks progressed the upcoming tours got rescheduled, then rescheduled again, then effectively cancelled. There were times when it all felt fatal. There’s no guide book on how to navigate being a working musician during a global pandemic, so we were left to make it up as we went along. We wanted to document and create in the moment, and though we couldn’t be in the same room together due to social distancing lockdowns, we got creative.”

Over the next few months, the band would re-record Hello Exile from their separate locations. “We would track the songs from our own home studios, share the files via dropbox, and pray it all made sense when pieced back together. Initially, we planned for the album to be similar to our acoustic demo collection ‘On The Possible Past,’ but we quickly found out that this batch of songs benefited from more detailed arrangements,” adds Barnett. “We rewrote, and changed keys and melodies. We blended analog and digital instruments in ways we never had before. We dug through old lyric notebooks and added additional verses. We got our dear friend Kayleigh Goldsworthy to play violin on two songs. No idea was off limits. Hell, I even convinced the band to let me play harmonica on a song (no small feat!). The recording process ran from mid-March till June, and upon completion we sent it over to our dear friend and close collaborator Will Yip to mix and master.”

The Menzingers:
Eric Keen, bass
Greg Barnett, vocals, guitar
Joe Godino, drums, percussion
Tom May, vocals, guitar
Kayleigh Goldsworthy, violin on (“I Can't Stop Drinking" and "Last to Know")

Recorded in isolation in Philadelphia, PA Spring of 2020
Mixed by Will Yip
Mastered by Will Yip
Produced and Engineered by The Menzingers

The Menzingers
sind eine Punk-Rock-Formation aus Scranton, Pennsylvania. Ihr Debüt-Album "A Lesson In The Abuse Of Information Technology" erscheint 2007, nachdem sie im Vorjahr bereits ein selbstbetiteltes Debüt-Tape herausbringen und erfolgreich in der Szene vertreiben. 2010 wandert Zweitling "Chamberlain Waits" und die Band tourt als Support für Against Me!. Auch mit dem Hochkaräter "Anti-Flag" gibt sie ein kurzes Gastspiel. 2011 signen The Menzingers bei Epitaph Records, des Bad Religion-Gitarristen Brett Gurewitz.

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