The Menzingers share ‘Better Angels,’ the latest single from their Will Yip-produced album ‘Everything I Ever Saw,’ out July 17 on Epitaph
The Menzingers have been building toward something for a while now, and “Better Angels“ makes clear that the wait is going to be worth it. Released June 9, the track is the latest single from Everything I Ever Saw, the Pennsylvania four-piece’s ninth full-length album, due July 17 via Epitaph Records. Directed by Britain Weyant, who also co-directed the lead single “Chance Encounters,” the accompanying video arrives at a moment when the band is operating with as much creative purpose and personal honesty as any point in their near-twenty-year run.
Greg Barnett, the band’s vocalist and guitarist, did not bury the song’s intent.
It’s a song about trying to find common ground in a world that’s increasingly divided,” he explained in a statement. “It’s asking whether there’s enough left in us to still see each other as human beings.” That question, simple as it sounds, sits at the center of what makes “Better Angels” hit the way it does
The Menzingers have always written about the collision between personal life and the world outside the window, and this track continues that tradition with the directness and emotional weight that has made them one of punk rock’s most reliable voices.
A Record Built From Real Change
Everything I Ever Saw was recorded in the fall of 2025 at Memory Music Studios in South Philadelphia, the longtime home base of Grammy Award-winning producer Will Yip, who has worked with the band on 2017’s After the Party and the sonically expansive Hello Exile in 2019. This time around, Yip became an unofficial fifth member as the band worked through 11 songs shaped by marriage, divorce, loss, and personal transformation. The album follows 2023’s Some of It Was True and represents the most internally connected the four members have felt in years.
Guitarist and co-vocalist Tom May described the process with unusual candor in the album announcement. “So much changed in our lives and in the world while we were making this record, and somehow, it all pulled us deeper into the band and deeper into our friendship. Twenty years in and this is the most connected we’ve felt to what we’re doing. I’d always heard ‘bigger kids, bigger problems,’ and there’s truth in that, but there’s also bigger answers and deeper meaning.
There’s a kind of hard-won hope you can only find on the other side of real change. In all the uncertainty of life and the world, it’s easy to go straight to cynical. Easy to say fuck it all. With Everything I Ever Saw, we wanted to lean into all of it, head on.”
Tour Dates, the Stone Pony, and What Comes Next
The Menzingers will celebrate the album’s release with a special show at The Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey on July 17, the same day the record drops. From there, they head out on a North American headline tour later in the year alongside Hot Water Music and Weakened Friends, two bands that share the Menzingers’ commitment to emotionally direct, no-frills punk songwriting.
The year has already been active for the band. They opened with a hometown appearance at Sing Us Home Fest in Philadelphia on May 2, moved through Mexico, and then played the UK and Europe, including slots at Slam Dunk Festival and Vans Warped Tour dates in Washington, DC and Montreal. “Better Angels” arrives as the third previewed track from the album alongside “Chance Encounters” and “Nobody’s Heroes,” which was released back in February.
The 11-track record, mastered by Chris Gehringer at Sterling Sound, now has its full tracklist available. For a band fifteen albums into their relationship with Epitaph Records and approaching two full decades of work, Everything I Ever Saw sounds less like a career checkpoint and more like a band finding a new gear entirely.
