Joyce Manor - Million Dollars to Kill Me (CD)

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Joyce Manor are back with a new album, entitled Million Dollars To Kill Me. Frontman Barry Johnson along with co-founding guitarist Chase Knobbe, new drummer Pat Ware - and long-time bassist Matt 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 heroes, Impossibles'€™ guitarist/ vocalist Rory Phillips, with whom he had been co-writing long distance, to match the ones written at full volume.

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, Massachusetts. They recorded daily 10-to-6 and then slept right upstairs in bunk beds: "Kinda felt like camp," says Johnson. "€œIt was a pleasure - I would recommend it to anyone."€ If 2016'€™s Cody was about growing up, then Kill Me is about what happens next - the reckonings with love, money, doubt and confusion, and the hope that persists despite it all.

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