I Used to Go to This Bar

Joyce Manor

I Used to Go to This Bar

The California quartet's sventh studio album of pop/rock produced by Bad Religion’s Brett Gurewitz

ADM rating[?]

7.2

Label
Epitaph
UK Release date
30/01/2026
US Release date
30/01/2026
  1. 8.0 |   Under The Radar

    NEW They keep up their uninterrupted streak of never releasing a bad album. Like their best work, as soon as the record ends, it invites you to start back again from the top, wearing out the grooves until you know every hook by heart
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  2. 8.0 |   Record Collector

    NEW I Know Where Mark Chen Lives and The Opossum, both of which race by in a blur of sawtooth guitars, spring-loaded basslines and earnest vocals. Yet there is dynamic range here, too. Print edition only

  3. 8.0 |   Kerrang!

    NEW Heart-tugging closer Grey Guitar pushes over the finish line with deceptively profound slacker observations on the nature of memory and the importance of living in the moment. It’s a moreish listen, the perfect soundtrack to whiling away the day
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  4. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    NEW The Californian trio’s exhilarating, bittersweet seventh album marks a vital evolution
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  5. 7.4 |   Pitchfork

    NEW The Los Angeles pop-punk trio spends its seventh album wrestling with nostalgia, finding nuance and emotional complexity in their everyday grievances
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  6. 7.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    NEW One of the band’s strongest efforts to date
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  7. 7.0 |   Uncut

    NEW Demonstrates a continued forte for hooky songs that are just as likely to draw from '80s inspirations like The Smiths and Aztec Camera as from Joyce Manor's rowdier predecessors on Epitaph. Print edition only

  8. 6.0 |   Far Out

    NEW For all their SoCal sense of humour, their full-steam instrumentals, and their catchy melodies, on this release, Joyce Manor stop just shy of greatness
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