Joyce Manor

Los Angeles' band Joyce Manor, fronted by Barry Johnson, debuted with Joyce Manor (2011), an album of brief songs that winked at both emocore and punk-pop with rousing vocals that evoked pub-rock of the late 1970s in Constant Headache and Leather Jacket. After the disappointing, Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired (2012) the 20-minute Never Hungover Again (2014) offered at least the romantic Christmas Card, the agonizing Falling in Love Again and the restless Heart Tattoo. Cody (2016), with the Nirvana-esque grunge-pop of Last You Heard Of Me, and Million Dollars to Kill Me (2018) were mediocre.

The demented rigmarole House Warning Party (2020) came out as a single.