Barry Johnson didn’t want to write more punk songs. As the lead singer of California pop-punk band Joyce Manor, he’d spent nearly two decades doing just that. Plus, he’d already penned indie rock-leaning tracks for the band’s seventh album I Used to Go to This Bar. So when Bad Religion co-founder and the album’s producer, Brett Gurewitz, informed him that the LP needed faster songs, Johnson wasn’t thrilled. 

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