Album Rating: 3.5
There are times where I feel Andy Hull just doesn’t have the right voice for some of these songs
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I actually kind of agree. He built his voice up on a lot of alt-rock that gave him a fairly rigid delivery despite the soft tone of his voice. I think it “objectively” works with their more traditional, heavily produced material like their upcoming album. But Black Mile had this feeling of brokenness and mental illness that plays off of the weird, almost rambling nature of his lyrics and delivery on this record, and I think it comes together pretty beautifully.
The awkwardness of his voice over intimate instrumentation works way less in his favor on Bad Books 3.
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Album Rating: 4.0
This is something I’d never order, like I’d gotten to the restaurant late and a casual acquaintance selected something at random, or because they like it.
Just so happens I hit the jackpot and now I’m ordering it on a regular basis.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Fun read:
https://uproxx.com/indie/andy-hull-reviews-every-manchester-orchestra-album/
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Album Rating: 3.5
oh, christ, i just realized the new one is out in a week.
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Coming back to this for the first time since 2017ish, surprised by how many of these melodies are actually ringing a bell
Still underwhelmed by pretty much everything they do instrumentally here but yeah some of the choruses actually do hit, there's almost a sort of coldplay-like quality to the way the songs are so obvious yet so effective
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The Grocery is a proper stunner though, like that alone puts this right on the verge of a 3.5
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Album Rating: 4.0
Ugh did you just compare this to Coldplay? That hurts.
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Album Rating: 5.0
ew coldplay
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Album Rating: 5.0
The Coldplay comparison is a compliment :-) that said this is like 92% different (research shows)
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Album Rating: 4.5
"there's almost a sort of coldplay-like quality to the way the songs are so obvious yet so effective"
In that the melodies and structures are really straightforward but elevated by sheer sincerity? is that what you're getting at?
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I think there's something else to the equation other than sincerity that I can't quite put my finger on but essentially yeah
I definitely don't mean the comparison as an insult, but not necessarily as a compliment either! Obviously the two bands sound VERY different, it's just that one particular aspect I feel is shared in their respective approaches
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Album Rating: 2.0
"Ugh did you just compare this to Coldplay? That hurts."
agreed coldplay don't deserve that
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Album Rating: 5.0
I don't necessarily disagree that there could be small overlap. Andy Hull made this right after doing an all acapella soundtrack for Swiss Army Man, then applied a lot of what he learned in terms of vocal layering etc to this, so the way this and most coldplay albums are centered around voice could be a point of comparison
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Album Rating: 4.7
the Swiss Army Man soundtrack is absurdly underrated, its some of the best MO-adjacent music
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Album Rating: 5.0
Agreed. Is it even in the database? Pretty sure I don't have it rated.
nvm: stalked your ratings and found it under Andy Hull
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Album Rating: 4.7
I reviewed it back when it came out, I think?
I was in Thailand then so the majority of my memories are not about writing on sputnik tbh
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Yeah I saw Swiss Army Man mentioned in that uproxx article sowing linked and had to do a bit of a double-take lol, guess I've just always thought of Hull more as a singer-songwriter type than a composer
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Album Rating: 4.7
he is quite literally only singing on that album from a certain point of view lol
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Album Rating: 5.0
I also think he's come into his own a bit as a producer, he had a huge role in MMOG from that side of things
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