Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired is the second studio album by American punk rock band Joyce Manor released on April 14, 2012.
The artwork for Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired was inspired by GI and What We Do Is Secret by the Germs.
Composition
"I was just really, really aware that people were gonna be listening to it… I was really concerned with being cool and being like accepted by the cool kids, and I really wanted to prove that we’re like not just a pop punk band, so I was really leaning into the more esoteric and weird shit and trying to rep like Wire, or Young Marble Giants, like, ‘I have a cool record collection, I swear to god!'"
The album was notably diverse from their previous self-titled album Joyce Manor (2011), with it incorporating lo-fi and folk punk. Barry Johnson, frontman of Joyce Manor, called the album "a pain to make," noting it was made to differentiate themselves from other pop-punk bands. "We didn’t want to be a Warped Tour band," said Johnson.[2] Johnson admitted that this was rather an absurd decision, stating, "That’s what I was worried about? Cred? Something I’m not doing making me cool? Get some real problems."[2] It is the only album in Joyce Manor's catalogue where the lo-fi sound is present, where it turn back to a sound more like their self-titled album with Never Hungover Again (2014). The album also contains a cover of The Buggles' 1979 single "Video Killed the Radio Star".[3]
Track listing
All music is composed by Joyce Manor except where noted
The album generally received a positive reception from reviewers. AllMusic's Tim Sendra jokingly called it "sounds a bit like how Weezer might have turned out if they had a recording budget of about ten dollars and never left their parents' basement," but said the album was "all glory, no boredom" and songs like Video Killed The Radio Star was "delivering exactly the right amount of emotional jolt".[5] It, however, saw a mixed reception from the fanbase due to the experimental sound.[8]
