Joyce Manor are back with “All My Friends Are So Depressed,” the trio’s first new song in three years.
With a shuffling groove and an overall lack of distortion on their guitars, “All My Friends Are So Depressed” is a more somber, meditative offering from Joyce Manor. They channel the song’s strung-out subject matter in their melancholy arrangement, which includes wistful “Ahhs” and softer tones, all while frontman Barry Johnson provides his best Morrissey impression. Stream the song below.
For “All My Friends Are So Depressed,” the band was inspired by The Smiths, 100 gecs, and Lana Del Rey, as well as The Libertines, X, and Tiger Army. “The first line I came up with for this song was ‘lord above in a Tecate truck’ after passing a Tecate delivery truck with Jesus shit all over it on th