MILLION DOLLAR MANOR

Joyce Manor will release their fifth full-length effort, Million Dollars to Kill Me. The album follows 2016’s critically lauded release Cody.

Today, Joyce Manor have shared a lyric video for the title track from Million Dollars to Kill Me. With its Britpop-esque hooks and driving guitar riffs, “Million Dollars to Kill Me” centers on Joyce Manor’s understated-yet-poignant lyrics (e.g., “Nobody tells you it hurts to be loved”).

Produced by Converge’s Kurt Ballou, Million Dollars to Kill Me came to life at Ballou’s own GodCity Studio in Salem, Massachusetts. During the recording process, Joyce Manor guitarist/vocalist Barry Johnson, guitarist Chase Knobbe, bassist Matt Ebert, and new drummer Pat Ware slept right upstairs in bunk beds. “Kinda felt like camp,” Johnson notes. Additionally, Million Dollars to Kill Me was mixed by Andrew Scheps (Weezer, AFI, Green Day).

While Cody focused on growing up, Million Dollars to Kill Me looks at what happens next: reckonings with love, money, doubt, confusion, and the hope that persists despite it all. Throughout the album, Joyce Manor augment that tension with their layered guitar work: Knobbe’s uncommon ability to make songs sound sadder and tougher at the same time, Johnson’s flair for mixing minor and major chords to invoke a precise kind of overpowering melancholy.

Co-founded by Johnson and Knobbe in L.A.’s South Bay, Joyce Manor released their self-titled first album in 2011. The band made their Epitaph Records debut with Never Hungover Again, a 2014 effort that Pitchfork hailed as “their most ambitious and diverse album, as weird as it is instantly enjoyable.”

MILLION DOLLARS TO KILL ME TRACKLIST

JOYCE MANOR – NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES

Tue      9-Oct   Woodstock, NY            Colony
Wed     10-Oct Boston, MA                 Royale
Thu      11-Oct Brooklyn, NY               Brooklyn Steel (16 plus)
Fri        12-Oct Asbury Park, NJ           Asbury Lanes   (18 plus)
Sat       13-Oct Washington, DC          Black Cat
Sun      14-Oct Philadelphia, PA          Union Transfer
Tue      16-Oct Columbus, OH             Skully’s
Wed     17-Oct Cleveland, OH             Beachland Ballroom
Thu      18-Oct Toronto, ON                Opera House
Fri        19-Oct Detroit, MI                  Majestic Theatre
Sat       20-Oct Chicago, IL                  Vic Theatre
Mon     22-Oct Madison, WI                High Noon Saloon (18 plus)
Tue      23-Oct Minneapolis, MN        Cedar Cultural Center
Wed     24-Oct Des Moines, IA            Wooly’s
Fri        26-Oct Denver, CO                 Summit Music Hall
Sat       27-Oct Salt Lake City, UT        In the Venue
Sun      28-Oct Boise, ID                      Neurolux (21 plus)
Tue      30-Oct Vancouver, BC            Biltmore Cabaret (19 plus)
Wed     31-Oct Seattle, WA                 Neptune
Thu      1-Nov   Portland, OR               Wonder Ballroom
Sat       3-Nov   San Francisco, CA        Fillmore
Sat       19-Jan  Los Angeles, CA           Hollywood Palladium

**10/9-10/20 w/ Vundabar, Big Eyes
**10/22-11/3 w/ Vundabar, Peach Kelli Pop
**1/19 w/ Jeff Rosenstock and special guests