Manchester Orchestra A Black Mile to the Surface
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Feather
September 25th 2017


10112 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Show was awesome. The new stuff has a completely different vibe live than all of their other stuff though, more quiet and dark, but I felt the band did a great job balancing it. They sounded MUCH better than the festival performance I saw them at right after Cope came out. At one point Andy just before going into another songs goes "Wait one second, hey Warped Tour, yeah you guys up here in the front. This ones gunna be bit slower, so just enjoy it and don't mosh." which I thought was pretty hilarious.



Tiger Jaw was good but nothing super special. Foxing was awesome and I highly recommend seeing them. They are much better live than on record and thats saying quite a bit because their albums are pretty strong.

dbizzles
September 25th 2017


15193 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

I've seen Manchester a handful of times and they are usually pretty solid. Sometimes Andy gets so into the performance that the sound quality and vocals suffer a bit.

Foxing are fantastic live. Saw them open for mewithoutyou and was impressed.

Orb
September 25th 2017


9346 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Ya'll's'es ratings for this is str8 decrepit

MarsKid
Emeritus
September 28th 2017


21030 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I liked this a lot.

Dewinged
Staff Reviewer
September 28th 2017


32024 Comments


This is a solid and fast grower.

MarsKid
Emeritus
September 28th 2017


21030 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Didn't really grow for me tbh, it hit like a truck.

Orb
September 29th 2017


9346 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I cried on the first listen I wont lie. Like actually cried.. real tears.

MarsKid
Emeritus
September 29th 2017


21030 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I think the only albums that make me do that are my personal top 3.



Depends on my mood tho, I could bawl my eyes out to weird stuff if I'm in a bad spot

Dewinged
Staff Reviewer
September 29th 2017


32024 Comments


Give me more reverb.

Sir, I think it's...

GIVE ME MORE REVERB I SAY!

MarsKid
Emeritus
September 29th 2017


21030 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Vocals on this are amazing tbh

Dewinged
Staff Reviewer
October 2nd 2017


32024 Comments


The end verse of Silence really, it's smth else...

Orb
October 2nd 2017


9346 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Silence gets me shook

JesusCage
October 2nd 2017


441 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

Silence is clearly a SOTY contender

Gyromania
October 2nd 2017


37028 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Silence is boring af

Sowing
Moderator
October 2nd 2017


43950 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

You could say that about The Parts IMO but not The Silence - that song is one of their very best. This has become (probably) my #2 AOTY. Even though there are stronger releases out there (namely Gangs of Youth and Fleet Foxes in the context of my personal top 5), no album has connected with me on the emotional level that this has...not even Science Fiction tbh.

MarsKid
Emeritus
October 2nd 2017


21030 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

"You forced the traffic to erase your family demons" is one of the better lines I've heard

Project
October 2nd 2017


5830 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

it's headcanon for me that "the only obvious equation" in The Grocery and "Simple Math" are related



also The Parts is beautiful...

VheissuCrisis
Emeritus
October 2nd 2017


1389 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Lyrics aren't usually significant for me, but they really hit the mark here. The Silence gives me chills.

ashcrash9
Contributing Reviewer
October 2nd 2017


3348 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

the first half of The Silence doesn't quite pull me in but when the song reaches its close it truly becomes something special. Haven't heard Like a Virgin yet but I'd handily say it's MO's best closer

Dewinged
Staff Reviewer
October 2nd 2017


32024 Comments


I would go as far as to say the last minute of The Silence is one of the best closing moments this year.

"That was something your father had burned in me
Twenty hours out of Homestake eternity
"You can go anywhere but you are where you came from"

Man...



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