The Melancholy Connection

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{{Infobox album

| name = The Melancholy Connection

| type = Compilation

| artist = Millencolin

| cover = Millencolin - The Melancholy Connection cover.jpg

| alt =

| released = 29 May 2012

| recorded = 2000–2012

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Punk rock

| length =

| label = Burning Heart, Epitaph

| producer = Millencolin

| prev_title = Machine 15

| prev_year = 2008

| next_title = True Brew

| next_year = 2015

| misc = {{Singles

| name = The Melancholy Connection

| type = Compilation

| single1 = Carry You

| single1date = 8 June 2012

}}

}}

The Melancholy Connection is a compilation album with a bonus DVD by Swedish punk rock band Millencolin, released in 2012. It follows up The Melancholy Collection which also contained rare and unreleased tracks. The DVD features a documentary that looks inside the making of Pennybridge Pioneers,{{Cite web |url=http://epitaph.com/artists/millencolin/release/the-melancholy-connection/ |title=THE MELANCHOLY CONNECTION Album Details|access-date=11 September 2017 |archive-date=29 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220929105725/https://www.epitaph.com/artists/millencolin/release/the-melancholy-connection |url-status=dead }} with archival footage of the band and Bad Religion/Epitaph founder Brett Gurewitz who produced Pennybridge Pioneers and played acoustic guitar on "The Ballad".

The compilation contains the two newly recorded tracks "Carry You" and "Out from Nowhere".

Punk News began streaming the album in its entirety on 23 May 2012.{{cite web | url=http://www.punknews.org/article/47404 | title=Music: Millencolin: 'The Melancholy Connection' | date=22 May 2012 }}