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It's been much too quiet on the Mean Jeans front the last few years. The joyfully juvenile pop-punk party band hasn't put out a new full-length album since 2012's awesome On Mars, which seems curious: How much time does it really take to make a Mean Jeans album, really? Just grab a couple power chords, add more lyrics about pizza and beer and throw them over a super-hooky chorus. Done!
Regardless, the hiatus appears to be over. The band has signed with Fat Wreck Chords—the label it should've been on from day one—and it's got a new album on the way, at some as-yet-undetermined point in the very near future. Our first bite of that new album is "Nite Vision," and while it certainly tastes like classic Mean Jeans—which is to say, like the greatest Ramones tribute band ever—the nocturnal imagery gives it an ever-so-darker palate, closer to Too Tough to Die than Rocket to Russia…but only slightly. Don't worry: It still rips.
While there's still no word on when the new album is coming out, or what it'll be called, you can pre-order the "Nite Vision" single, featuring two B-sides that will not appear on the LP, here.
Willamette Week