Fat Wreck rockers Mean Jeans brought something special back from their Australian tour with the Chats- A WHOLE NEW ALBUM.
They had this to say about the inspiration the tour offered:
Getting back on tour post-pandemic and doing 9 weeks with The Chats in the US and Australia reignited our appetite for shredding. We got home, wrote a new album, and recorded it by ourselves in Portland over 5 days. Blasted's got more fast + wild loser anthems, a couple tearjerkers, more Houndy singing, and I finally figured out how to do a guitar solo. We're kicking the year off with another Australian tour, this time a punk cavalcade of 6 bands.
It drops February 9. Preorders are available in all the places. But first, check out that aforementioned banger.