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Andy Hull Reviews Every Manchester Orchestra Album

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  1. Melody Bot Apr 23, 2021
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    This article has been imported from chorus.fm for discussion. All of the forum rules still apply.

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    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. They had no idea what to do. 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. We should do ‘Simple Math’ and then also the next week release ‘April Fool,’ so that nobody knows what the single is.”

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  2. Phil507 Apr 23, 2021
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    In Columbia Record's defense, no one knew what to do with mid-level rock bands on a major record label in 2011. The number of stations playing that music had severely diminished as did the listenership.
     
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  3. noisyneighbour Apr 23, 2021
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    reading this got me even more fired up for the new record; really feels like they’ve found their sweet spot.
     
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  4. Allthegiganticthings Apr 23, 2021
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    Love this band
     
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  6. Ska Senanake Apr 23, 2021
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    They've been in their sweet spot their entire career! I want another album like Cope. It rocked so hard.
     
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  7. noisyneighbour Apr 24, 2021
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    I don’t disagree, and I loved Cope too. Just something about Black Mile and these new singles feel a level above; the perfect fusion of the heaviness of Cope, the energy of METN, the production elements of Simple Math, etc. etc.
     
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  8. .K. Apr 24, 2021
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    I’d agree with this on Bed Head, not yet so on Keel Timing.
     
  9. AlwaysEvolving21 Apr 24, 2021
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    Cope #1
     
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  10. fredwordsmith Apr 25, 2021
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    Hope #1