The Menzingers Announce Reworked Version of Hello Exile LP

Philly punks The Menzingers have announced that they will be releasing a reworked version of last year’s album, Hello Exile.  The reworked version will be titled From Exile and will consist of stripped down versions of the album, recorded from each member’s house during quarantine.   The album will be made available digitally on September 25 and on vinyl November 13 through their long time label Epitaph Records.  The band discusses how the album came together:

“We would track the songs from our own home studios, share the files via dropbox, and pray it all made sense when pieced back together. Initially, we planned for the album to be similar to our acoustic demo collection ‘On The Possible Past,’ but we quickly found out that this batch of songs benefited from more detailed arrangements,” adds Barnett. “We rewrote, and changed keys and melodies. We blended analog and digital instruments in ways we never had before. We dug through old lyric notebooks and added additional verses. We got our dear friend Kayleigh Goldsworthy to play violin on two songs. No idea was off limits. Hell, I even convinced the band to let me play harmonica on a song (no small feat!). The recording process ran from mid-March till June, and upon completion we sent it over to our dear friend and close collaborator Will Yip to mix and master.”

New versions of the songs “Strawberry Mansions” and “High School Friend” can be heard below.