![]() ![]() If you want more, their vocalist Andy Hull is part a project called Bad Books with Kevin Devine that are worth your time, and he's also got a solo project called Right Away, Great Captain! which is also worth a listen. You want to hear Brand New meets Band Of Horses? Of course you do. However, for those of you kind of new to them, I am more than happy to provide you with their discography, since it is definitely one worth exploring. I don't really feel the need to ramble too much about this band, since they really need no explanation as to why someone should listen to them, and since they are very well-known. As a counterpart to this new heavy sound, they released Hope, which is an acoustic rendition of the entirety of Cope. This heavy side of them finally resulted in 2014's Cope, which is by far the band's most disortion-laden, dark, and aggressive album, though the same solid songwriting still shines through. ![]() Their subsequent albums continue their expansiveness, with them delivering some solid, catchy singles, as well as gradually getting heavier in sound (with songs like "Pride" and "Virgin"). Whether they're clanging away on clean and distorted guitars, fingerpicking thin acoustic strings, or even throwing in some organ), Manchester Orchestra find a way to hit home. It introduces the world to Andy Hull's crafty songwriting, as well as his distinct voice which can range anywhere from whispered shivers to all-out yells. This has to be one of my personal favourite albums, and definitely my favourite of theirs. ![]() A year later came their official debut, I'm Like A Virgin Losing A Child. With their members fresh out of high school, they put out a few EP's, and planned their debut Nobody Sings Anymore, though the project would never ever be officially released, only circulated around the internet years later. We should do ‘Simple Math’ and then also the next week release ‘April Fool,’ so that nobody knows what the single is.Manchester Orchestra are a five-piece indie/alternative rock band from Atlanta, Georgia that formed in 2004. I was like, ‘I have a pretty good idea: I think this song ‘Pensacola’ is really catchy.’ And, they were like, ‘No, no, no, it can’t be that, there’s no real chorus to it. I’ll never forget being in the office at Columbia, and playing them the record, and the radio team just having these blank stares on their faces. But they also were managing Beyonce records, so it wasn’t like they could put all their attention and focus on Simple Math. The main two guys at that label, Rob Stringer, who ran the whole thing, and then Steve Barnett, who was the president of Columbia, were both really big supporters of our band. Australia was really great to us on that record, too. It was like, “Man, we can afford to have strings!” After Mean Everything, which felt like a pretty punishing record at times, this was a chance to get beautiful, and it was the first record where we stretched as far as we could possibly stretch to see what kind of genres and sounds we could dip our toes into.Įngland was really great to us. You can tell it’s pretty dramatic, and you notice how wide we wanted it to go. That was the first record me and Rob really got our hands on together. ![]() I felt I was really starting to come into my production brain, and so was Rob. There was nobody ever checking in on a single, for better or for worse. The good part of that was, they let us make the record that we wanted to make. We were sort of lost on an island out there. But he was an A&R guy, with not a ton of pull. Columbia said, ‘You can take every band with you except Manchester. Two weeks later, the guy who runs Canvasback was let go from Columbia, and moved from Columbia over to Atlantic with Canvasback. We were on a version of Columbia for Mean Everything called Canvasback. ![]()
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