The Party's Not Over…

THE MENZINGERS contemplate life, punk and death as they continue to get older and wiser…

- James Mackinnon

If you’re headed to Las Vegas to roll for the big one, then you could do worse than have The Menzingers in your corner. Since releasing their second album Chamberlain Waits in 2010 – a sizzling collection of whip-smart punk songs that piqued the attention of Epitaph Records – the Philadelphia quartet have been on a creative winning streak most bands would sell any possession you could name for. It was a record that announced them as something refreshingly honest, unpretentious and easy to like on a relatably “you” level.

Their excellent follow-up, 2012’s On The Impossible Past, found the band making their bones as heartfelt storytellers of youthful misadventure, while solid followup Rented World proved they could write explosive rock bangers as well. 2017’s After The Party, meanwhile, felt like a culmination of all those elements: a love letter to the high times and hard lessons of your twenties, even as those years fall away behind you in the rearview mirror. So, the question that faces sixth album Hello Exile is, where can you go from here?