Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile to the Surface (July 28, 2017) Album • Page 186

Gotta go with the alien this time, unfortunately

 

The Maze, again. All these songs are so amazing lol

 

The deluxe is also a gatefold and 180g. The standard is only 130g with a double wide spine

 

"Everybody I know makes the same mistakes,
packaged up in different boxes, masking tape."

I keep thinking he's gonna sing "tape" instead of "shame" but at least that's a contextually accurate mistake.

 

I threw them both out there bc I felt like Flies is a little bit more accessible but yeah same

 

The piano on "The Alien" is so perfectly simple, I love it. It reminds me of a lick you might have heard on the Her score or something like that. Now that I've listened to this record a bunch I'm starting to notice little nuances and I'm paying attention to individual instrumentation as opposed to the whole composition and there's some rad stuff on here. Some really cool drumming.

 

He loves using the high hate pedal on this Record

 

The Gold. Easy. Not just the weakest on this list but the weakest on the whole album imho

 

I started driving more recently, so all my CDs left in my room have found some use




until I went to the mall to buy this album. Sorry, other albums. Still being ignored for the time being.

 

Oh snap. Something just jumped Alien to get eliminated

 

Blasphemy

 

Well I'm an olympian so I went for The Gold.

(Laugh with me, not at me please.)

 

Apparently this did not chart well. The full list is not online yet but Rolling Stone said Arcade Fire was only new release to chart in the top 25. Bummer because Cope charted at no. 13 and Simple Math at 21

 

That's surprising.

 

I don't understand I figured with how well the roll out was it would have sold well, also the whole download with a ticket

 

Maybe Rolling Stone doesn't know what they're talking about.

Maybe we're just on a tier of music appreciation that the world doesn't understand.

Maybe I'm talking out of my butt.

Maybe it's maybelene.

 

Arcade Fire did same thing. Ticket purchases came with album download. I'm pretty stunned.

 

Cult classic in the shadows, it seems.

 

I think it's your second point :)

 

Hard to believe that thrice's release last year would do better than this one

 

I am always blown away at the fact people don't know who Manchester Orchestra is. Their fans are rabid, and the people I know who are into them are INTO them. But your average random pop-rock/indie/alternative fan says 'who?' when they're brought up. A band like Thrice or TBS or Beand New or whoever are just significantly bigger names than ManOrch.

Around here, we properly rate them as one of the best. The world at large seems to ignore them completely.

 

In an era of less rock bands, they'd probably do better playing guitars like METN. I'm glad they follow their hearts, and if that's A Black Mile, or a Cope, or Simple Math.

 

I've misheard a lot of lyrics on this album, but that certainly hasn't been one.

 

still think Andy is wrong and its "day dream" not "day drink"

 

If you've heard mainstream alt rock you wouldn't be saying that