Manchester Orchestra + Special guest Kevin Devinen (SOLD OUT)
Manchester Orchestra have announced a Birmingham date
on their forthcoming tour.
Mean Everything To Nothing, the second album from Atlanta’s Manchester Orchestra, is everything you want a rock record to be: raw, urgent, emotional, and 100 percent authentic.
Inspired by the pounding, primal assault of Weezer’s Pinkerton,
Nirvana’s In Utero, and Foo Fighters’ The Colour and the Shape, this
young band has created its own version of what a classic rock album
should sound like, complete with fiercely beautiful melodies, shifting
guitar and keyboard textures, loud/soft dynamics, and an urgency in
each band member’s performance, especially Hull’s cathartic vocals.
The drama is magnified by the fact that the album’s first six songs
bleed into one another without stopping. A fully realized album, Mean
Everything To Nothing is the sound of a band coming into its own after
spending 300 days on the road in support of their debut album, 2007’s
I’m Like A Virgin Losing A Child — a coming-of-age chronicle that
expressed the then 19-year-old Hull’s hopes and aspirations as he
sought spiritual knowledge. Virgin was an attention-getting shot across
the bow that Rolling Stone praised as “expansive in scope and rich in
texture, even while remaining lyrically focused on small moments of
revelation” and the New York Times called “music to swoon to.”
Recorded last fall in Nashville and Atlanta, the album was made on the
heels of a very active period for the band. In 2008, they played
several major U.S. festivals, including Coachella and Lollapalooza, and
released a five-song EP, Let My Pride Be What’s Left Behind, in
October. Included with the EP is a DVD of the previously unreleased
What’s Left Behind documentary film of the band directed by Sam
Erickson (My Morning Jacket’s Okonokos).
