The Menzingers Announce New Album “After The Party”

By: Staff –

The Menzingers. (Photo: Charles Wrzesniewski)

The Menzingers will release their eagerly awaited fifth full-length After the Party on February 3rd, 2017. The album arrives as the follow-up to the Philadelphia-based band’s widely acclaimed Rented World. Pre-orders for After The Party are available here.

The Menzingers are premiering their new single “Bad Catholics” today. With its heavy riffs and high-powered rhythms, the song delivers a gorgeously detailed narrative of running into a lost love at a hometown church picnic. Stream it below.

Produced by Will Yip (Title Fight, Balance & Composure, Pianos Become the Teeth), After the Party taps into the Menzingers’ everyman romanticism to reflect on getting older but not quite growing up. Throughout the album, singer/guitarists Greg Barnett and Tom May, bassist Eric Keen, and drummer Joe Godino offset that deeply nuanced songwriting with anthemic harmonies, furious power chords, and larger-than-life melodies.

“We spent our 20s living in a rowdy kind of way, and now we’re at a point where it seems like everyone in our lives is moving in different directions,” says May of the inspiration behind After the Party. Adds Barnett: “We’re turning 30 now, and there’s this idea that that’s when real life comes on. In a way this album is us saying, ‘We don’t have to grow up or get boring—we can keep on having a good time doing what we love.’”

The band has also confirmed three in-store acoustic performances and signing events during the week of record release. February 1st at Vintage Vinyl in Fords, NJ, February 2nd at Looney Tunes in West Babylon, NY, and February 4th at Gallery of Sound in Wilkes Barre, PA. On October 29, The Menzingers will perform at The Fest in Gainesville, Florida.

After The Party Track-List 
1. Tellin’ Lies
2. Thick as Thieves
3. Lookers
4. Midwestern States
5. Charlie’s Army
6. House on Fire
7. Black Mass
8. Boy Blue
9. Bad Catholics
10. Your Wild Years
11. The Bars
12. After the Party
13. Livin’ Ain’t Easy