Joyce Manor has defined sounds in the emo music scene since their debut album Joyce Manor in 2011. On January 30, the band is returning with a new album, I Used To Go To This Bar, via Epitaph Records.
The third single for the album, “I Know Where Mark Chen Lives,” produced by SoCal punk legend Brett Gurewitz, is a testament to the band’s amazing songwriting.
On the song, Barry Johnson says, “Mark Chen was a singer and songwriter for the bands Summer Vacation and Winter Break, which didn’t get quite as popular as they deserved to. I just love Mark’s songwriting and voice. Lyrically, the song was inspired by Chase and I hanging out, drinking, and smoking weed and laughing about stuff, and we were talking about how when weed clubs first started, they’d give you a free dab and the budtender would do a dab with you. Dabs are insanely gnarly. I was cracking myself up imagining some 19-year-old girl that just did her third dab of the hour before getting robbed at gunpoint, because they’d always get robbed as cash businesses. That’s the imagery of the song: Those early days when weed was still not super fully legal. It was like the Wild West, a little bit. And yeah, that just gave me a chuckle because it’s really dark and brutal.”
“I Used To Go To This Bar” Tracklist:
1. I Know Where Mark Chen Lives
2. Falling Into It
3. All My Friends Are So Depressed
4. Well, Whatever It Was
5. I Used To Go To This Bar
6. After All You Put Me Through
7. The Opossum
8. Well, Don’t It Seem Like You’ve Been Here Before?
9. Grey Guitar
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