The Menzingers have shared “Everything I Ever Saw,” the title track and final pre-release single off their eagerly awaited new album ‘Everything I Ever Saw’, which arrives this Friday, July 17th via Epitaph [album artwork / tracklist below].
Speaking with Rolling Stone, the band’s guitarist / vocalist Greg Barnett elaborated on the title track remarking, “The album’s about living in the present, especially during life’s big moments. As musicians in a touring band, we’re constantly looking towards the next thing. I felt like I had been living my life like that for a very long time. Then Everything I Ever Saw just clicked. It tied in with all the other songs about being here in the moment and being there for the people that need you. The answer was right in front of us all along. People have described us as a very nostalgic band. It’s funny because I never saw it that way, it was more so about looking at the past for the answers to the things that you’re trying to understand now. That’s how I feel like our songwriting has always gone. The chorus, ‘I don’t want to relive, I just want to remember everything I ever saw’ sums that bit up. I want to remember all of this and use it in the future to appreciate my life.”
‘Everything I Ever Saw’ features the previously released tracks “Better Angels,” “Chance Encounters,” “Nobody’s Heroes,” and is available for pre-order / pre-save, with several limited edition vinyl colour variants available in the band’s store.
Recorded with longtime collaborator and GRAMMY Award-winning producer Will Yip (Turnstile, Mannequin Pussy) at his brand new Memory Music Studios in Philadelphia, PA, ‘Everything I Ever Saw’ is The Menzingers at their most defining. It’s an album forged in the wake of life-altering change, where marriage, divorce, loss, and growth collide with a renewed creative urgency. Twenty years into their career, it sees the band going back to the raw, collaborative spirit that first made them essential, channeling hard-earned wisdom into songs that feel both deeply personal and universally resonant. It’s a document of a band not just reflecting on who they’ve been, but actively becoming who they are.
The Menzingers are Greg Barnett (vocals, guitar), Tom May (vocals, guitar), Eric Keen (bass) and Joe Godino (drums). Since forming in 2006, The Menzingers stand as one of the defining voices of their generation—turning weathered memories and the uneasy passage of time into anthems that have profoundly reshaped the emotional landscape of modern punk.
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