Mannequin Pussy: Patience [EPITAPH]

Why you'll love it

Patience is pressed at 45 RPM for a louder, punchier cut. Pitchfork called it one of the best punk rock records of 2019, it holds an 85 on Metacritic, and in 2026 Rolling Stone placed it at number 42 on its list of the 100 greatest punk albums of all time.

This edition

• Cut at 45 RPM
• Ten songs, produced by Will Yip

About the album

Mannequin Pussy came up through Philadelphia's DIY scene playing songs that rarely hung around past the two-minute mark. Patience, their third album and first for Epitaph, keeps the speed but adds room to breathe. Will Yip, who has produced Code Orange and Turnover, gives the band a big, clean sound, and Marisa Dabice uses it to swing from a whisper to a full-throated roar, sometimes inside a single line.

The songs are about love, recovery and taking up space, and the range is the point: the title track charges out of the gate, "Drunk II" turns heartbreak into an anthem, and "In Love Again" closes the record on something close to joy. Athanasios Paul's guitar and keys, Colins Regisford's bass and Kaleen Reading's drums hit with real force, but there's melody everywhere you look.

Ten songs, all killer, over in less time than most people spend choosing a podcast.

Tracklist

Listen

On Epitaph, first out in 2019.