The Menzingers Hello Exile
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Colton
December 5th 2022


16757 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

title track is one of their best songs for sure. honestly the worst songs here are better than the worst songs on ATP like Charlie’s Army

PitchforkArms
December 8th 2022


2811 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Hello Exile is a great track - love it. I don't know if I can put this above Rented World, though. The bottom end of RW is worse than this, but dudes the top handful of tracks on that record are ALLTIMERRRZZZZZ. Rodent, Where Your Heartache Exists, In Remsission, I Don't Wanna Be an Asshole Anymore gahhhhh. I like those more than anything here.

Colton
December 8th 2022


16757 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I will say this sounds so much better on my cheap little $100 earbuds than it does on my good headphones. Menzingers have never had very good production but it's especially baffling here. it's not even like a stylistic, reverby arena rock sound like The Hold Steady's Teeth Dreams or something like that, it's just like, really messy and the vocals sound like they were recorded underwater

PitchforkArms
December 8th 2022


2811 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Oh yeah the production on this is SUPER overwrought. Super stylized reverb/delays on the vocals, stadium rock drums that have so much emphasis on the individual drums that the cymbals are practically missing - I do like the guitar & bass and how natural and enveloping they are, usually. Menzies usually do a good job of arranging a backbone of two non-competing rhythm guitars 1 of which is usually playing a nice thick rock chord and the other a jangly little sparkle chord to compliment it with the ability for either to cut in or out for emphasis. This whole genre rides a line of being SUPER overproduced or SUPER underproduced and I think OtIP and AtP are well-produced, the former being a little less glamorous than the latter, as they started leaning a little further into the hyper-punchy drum samples and big soaring multi-vocal choruses.

Colton
December 8th 2022


16757 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

yep all of that is spot on. they do have a great dynamic between the guitars and the guitars usually sound good. drums are a mixed bag sound-wise but the drummer is pretty solid

nol
December 10th 2022


12280 Comments


Music for Men on Bosley

nol
December 10th 2022


12280 Comments


Hello Hairloss

SlothcoreSam
March 6th 2023


6666 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Bad Actors is streaming now.

SlothcoreSam
March 6th 2023


6666 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Plus lots of summer tour dates....



Time for a new album.

PitchforkArms
March 6th 2023


2811 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

New record hopefully coming in hot! Thanks for the bump, Sloth

Colton
March 6th 2023


16757 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Bad Actors is sounding good through my phone speakers rn

Colton
March 6th 2023


16757 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

song is a hard 6/10

YoYoMancuso
Emeritus
March 6th 2023


19776 Comments

Album Rating: 4.2

yeah it's not bad but i can see why it was left off of this album

onionbubs
July 17th 2023


23796 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

new song tomorrow. should be the lead off for the new album cycle

butt.
July 17th 2023


11429 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

YAAAAYYYYY

SlothcoreSam
July 17th 2023


6666 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Listening to "There's No Place Left in The World For Me" right now.



Doing their best Hot Water Music impression for this one.

Greg's showing off his whole vocal range on this one, musically it's almost alt-country.



Great song.

JayEnder
July 17th 2023


22725 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

New album time? Awwww yiss

butt.
July 17th 2023


11429 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

That sounds awesome. So that’s the single name, not album? I saw a leak of the artwork and it reeeally reminds me of Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen

SlothcoreSam
July 17th 2023


6666 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I'm not sure if it's just the singles name.

The artwork on Spotify might just be for that single, at it has the singtitle on the bottom

onionbubs
July 17th 2023


23796 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

woah will yip didnt do this one



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