The Manges Release “Believe It”

Believe It, the new EP by La Spezia’s own The Manges, is available on streaming and on vinyl from Friday, November 13. A date for the superstitious, for a record whose very title dares you to believe it.

Around since the ’90s and stubborn like few others, The Manges are among the best-known Italian names in the Ramones-style punk rock underground.

Four years after their last album, “Book Of Hate for Good People”, they’re back with three songs on 12″ splatter vinyl, a 45 rpm maxi-single like the ones from the ’80s, out digitally and on vinyl through Italy’s Striped Records (STR051) and Mom’s Basement Records (MBR153) in the USA. The vinyl comes in two limited editions of 250 copies each: yellow and clear, both with blue and red splatter.

Production, mixing and mastering are by Mass Giorgini, a legendary name in American punk rock: bassist of Squirtgun, he has recorded and produced records by Screeching Weasel, Rise Against and Alkaline Trio at his Sonic Iguana Studio in Lafayette, Indiana, just to name a few. His bond with The Manges goes way back: in 2006 he mixed and mastered their album “The Manges Go Down”

The EP was recorded in March 2026 at La Clinica Dischi in La Spezia with Leonardo Lombardi.

Side A features “Believe It or Not”, a story of sailors, soldiers and strummed guitars. It’s the EP’s lead track

Side B opens with “Onoda Fanclub”, a song about never giving up, and about when stubbornness turns absurd.

The EP closes with a cover of “Space Ducks Theme Song” by the legendary American songwriter Daniel Johnston.

“Believe It or Not is one of the songs I’m proudest of, ever. I tried to reach far back with memory and imagination, to tell the magic of the simple lives of our parents, grandparents, ancestors. That’s the same strength we should be able to find in our own time, and maybe the spirit someone will look back on with nostalgia in the future.”

— Andrea Manges

The record can be ordered at stripedmusic.com