Never Hungover Again
Never Hungover Again is the third studio album by American punk rock band Joyce Manor, released on 22 July 2014 through Epitaph Records. The album cover features Matt Ebert with Frances Quinlan from the band Hop Along. Critical reception. Upon its release, "Never Hungover Again" received positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 82, which indicates "universal acclaim", based on 13 reviews. The A.V. Club critic David Anthony wrote that the album "isn’t a complete overhaul of  the band’s sound, but with all the gentle twists on those charms, it ends up serving as a re-introduction." AllMusic's Tim Sendra stated: "Joyce Manor make 20 minutes feel way more epic than the running time might promise, and "Never Hungover Again" ends up as the kind of record that feels like an instant classic." Ian Cohen of "Pitchfork" thought: "Once you stop trying to label what should be a hook and focus on what is, the ingenuity of each song’s design and the ear-turning nature of every maneuver speaks to "Never Hungover Again"s inexhaustible  quality, the kind of album you can play three times in a row without any part wearing out its welcome." "Pitchfork" went on to rank the album 90 in its list of the 200 best albums of the 2010s.