| Some of It Was True | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | The Menzingers |
| Cover: | SomeOfItWasTrue-TheMenzingers.jpg |
| Studio: | Sonic Ranch |
| Length: | 44:09 |
| Label: | Epitaph |
| Prev Title: | From Exile |
| Prev Year: | 2020 |
Some of It Was True is the seventh studio album by American punk rock band The Menzingers. It was released on October 13, 2023, by Epitaph Records.[1]
On July 18, 2023, The Menzingers released the first single "There’s No Place in This World for Me", while hinting of a new upcoming album.[2] The music video for the single was recorded at Sonic Ranch.[3]
On August 16, 2023, the band announced the release of their new album, alongside the first single "Hope Is A Dangerous Little Thing".[1] Speaking of the new album, the bands guitarist and vocalist Gregor Barnett said:
The third single "Come On Heartache" was released on September 20, 2023.[4]
Some of It Was True was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 67, based on 6 reviews.
Nick Ruskell of Kerrang said the album is "written with smartness, a rough, street poetry, and a huge dollop of Americana populated by burned-out restaurants and big cars and rock'n'roll dreamers and John Hughes suburbia", giving the release a four out of five.