Philadelphia-based punk band The Menzingers shared the music video for the song ‘Strangers Forever,’ a track off the band’s forthcoming record ‘Hello Exile’ out October 4 via Epitaph. The track is a searing tribute to parting ways, backing their spiky guitars with brilliantly barbed lyrics.
“Lyrically, the song is inspired by Leo Tolstoy‘s classic novel, ‘Anna Karenina.’ In it, the character Darya Alexandrovna learns of her husband’s infidelity and declares: ‘Even if we remain in the same house, we are strangers — strangers forever!’” explains vocalist Greg Barnett. “The idea of becoming a stranger to someone you so intimately know stuck with me and became the overarching narrative to this song.”