Manchester Orchestra A Black Mile to the Surface
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Gyromania
July 26th 2017


37016 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

ugh i want this now

Gyromania
July 26th 2017


37016 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

i didn't care for their last album and was going to skip on this but these singles are tops

Project
July 26th 2017


5822 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

This review is beautiful and I'm so hyped. Great work, Row. And yes, Girl Harbor on Hope is 100% the best thing to come out of that solidly-okay album.



My first MO album is Simple Math and I still haven't listened to Color Spectrum despite Acts IV and V being so good I finally forgive Casey for killing TREOS. So I guess I should catch up on those on my next long flight.

Sowing
Moderator
July 26th 2017


43943 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Gyro, "The Moth" is also an available single if you haven't checked it yet and are craving more material from this album

kris.
July 26th 2017


15504 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

shit, waiting til friday is gonna suck after reading this

Slex
July 26th 2017


16521 Comments


Well goddamn what a tremendous review
There are no words for how excited I am for this

Conmaniac
July 26th 2017


27677 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

yeah im pretty pumped to listen as well. I didn't even listen to COPE tho

Project
July 26th 2017


5822 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Listen to Top Notch and the Hope version of Girl Harbor and you're good to go.

Atari
Staff Reviewer
July 26th 2017


27947 Comments


you're on fire Rowbro

Conmaniac
July 26th 2017


27677 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

ah cool yeah ill plan on that

kris.
July 26th 2017


15504 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

while i understand the disdain for it, i still really like Cope. : (

Sowing
Moderator
July 26th 2017


43943 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Bumped up my score for this, damn you Rowan. "Lead, SD" is really hitting home for me right now with the line "This is temporary, I just heard I'm gonna be a dad"- just had a few weeks where it was looking like I was going to become a father, but found out yesterday that it's not happening. The song just crushes me right now in ways I can't express. Thank God for Andy Hull, he always connects with me.

dbizzles
July 26th 2017


15193 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

Please don't let me down with all this staff hype.

Sowing
Moderator
July 26th 2017


43943 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

It's almost impossible for it to live up to the bar we've set (every staffer besides one has given it over a 4), but I do think if people are still used to Cope that this will catch them offguard in a very good way. It's probably on par with METN or Virgin for me, Simple Math remains in a class of its own though.

dbizzles
July 26th 2017


15193 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

Hmm. Couple more days. Worried about it for some reason. Only thought the first single was real good, the second dragged on and the third didn't even leave an impression on me. Only heard each of them twice.

Project
July 26th 2017


5822 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

"but found out yesterday that it's not happening"



So sorry to hear, Sowing. =/



"while i understand the disdain for it, i still really like Cope. : ("



it has some really good moments (Top Notch, Every Stone), it's just pretty monotonous. Also weirdly devoid of ballads when MO is really, really good at those -- if they had included After the Scripture on the full album instead of as a bonus track it would have improved things significantly

YouGotLucky
July 26th 2017


971 Comments


Did the singer lose his wife or something or got divorced. seems like the songs (some) are about him leaving her/her leaving him.

Sowing
Moderator
July 26th 2017


43943 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

his lyrics have always centered around such topics; not sure though tbh as far as I'm aware he's still married



I vaguely recall an article about the song 'pale black eye' in which he confided that a lot of his music contains confessions about his marriage that he otherwise wouldn't verbalize..."god damn I'm tired of lying -- I wish I loved you like I used to."

dbizzles
July 26th 2017


15193 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

Sowing, on a sale of 1-10 how much will I notice or miss my boy Chris Freeman?

Conmaniac
July 26th 2017


27677 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

who dat



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