Tuesday, October 09 2007
SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (UK)
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I'm Like A Virgin Losing A Child
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17/09/2007
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Tracklisting
1.Wolves At Night
2.Now That You're Home
3.The Neighborhood Is Bleeding
4.I Can Feel Your Pain
5.Where Have You Been?
6.I Can Barely Breathe
7.Sleeper 1972
8.Golden Ticket
9.Alice And Interiors
10.Don't Let Them See You Cry
11.Colly Strings
Currently on tour with the Kings of Leon in the US Manchester Orchestra are about to reach the UK.
Led by singer / songwriter / guitarist Andy Hull, their debut LP, “I'm Like A Virgin Losing A Child”, is a statement cinematic in scope - a series of emotional vignettes that delicately unravel over the course of an elegantly conceived musical arc that recalls both murky southern mysticism and the id borne bombast of the Pacific Northwest. Driven by lyrics that are insightful, spiritual and impressionistic, the album is a litany of intimate details presented in widescreen. Just as the pointillist paintings of Georges Pierre Seurat or the films of Robert Altman lead our attention to the fine details, Manchester Orchestra also find inspiration in the intimate; but it is when we are able to gain some distance we begin to see the bigger picture and wonder where our experience fits in.
Manchester Orchestra's beginnings lie in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia where during Hull's junior year in high school, his talent as a songwriter was garnering the attention of fans and industry types alike. One of which prompted the idea of Andy to home school himself and put all of his focus into to writing and recording an album. Heartened by all the positive feedback, Hull took the advice and spent his senior year in the studio.
As with any great story “I'm Like A Virgin Losing A Child” benefits from a strong introduction - and "Wolves At Night" fits the bill. From it's onslaught of radio squelch and tense strumming, "Wolves" explodes into a dense expanse of guitars and funeral organ before bringing itself taut for Hull's introductory vocal: "I could have sworn that I saw you knee bent on the bedside / Arms stretched like a kite that time will eventually grow." As the song's hooks collide into one another we are given a glimpse of the themes that “I'm Like A Virgin Losing A Child” will explore: Confrontations with the supernatural, the validity of our eyes, and protagonists desperately attempting to untie a variety of spiritual knots.
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