Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything To Nothing
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Artist: Manchester OrchestraBrand: Baker Drivetrain
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-04-21
Model: 886973593424
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- The Only One
- Shake It Out
- I've Got Friends
- You, My Pride & Me
- In My Teeth
- One Hundred Dollars
- I Can Feel A Hot One
- My Friend Marcus
- Tony The Tiger
- Everything To Nothing
- The River
Music reviews of Mean Everything To Nothing
Music Review: Starting To Mean Just Everything
Rating: 5 Stars
I have a wide range of music I listen to and love, and over the past two years or so I have developed an unhealthy obsession with Brand New's "The Devil & God Are Raging Inside Me." I listen to everything from Enya to the Mars Volta, but that album simply entails most everything I love in music. Deeper lyrics revolving more around a narrative style, soft/loud dynamics executed beautifully, melodies that sound so raw and real, it's hard to believe it's music after awhile. The reason I mention this album is because of my initial hesitance to get into Manchester Orchestra.
My friend always swore to me they reminded him of Brand New, so I gave them a chance, albeit a half hearted chance, and wasn't impressed. Long story short, I got into them, and into them heavily eventually. Both of MO's albums are amazing pieces of art and they do evoke several different emotions while listening. Yes there are hints of Brand New, but also darker Death Cab, Bright Eyes, Neutral Milk Hotel, and a formula all their own. The album plays out as 11 separate different pieces entirely, which may be annoying for the untrained ear. Manchester does not just rest on one sound as each song could certainly be made by a different band. "The Only One" sounds like Kings Of Leon should have sounded on their early albums, while "Pride" sounds like Conor Oberst fronting Black Sabbath in its first half, with an apocalyptic rock out that would make Local H proud. The melodies on this and their first album give me the same warming sensation I receive upon listening to my favorite albums ever (i.e. "Devil & God"). The band has some small quirks to work out, but who really doesn't?
Overall this is a highly diverse, emotional album that isn't afraid to flex its muscles in contrast with most indie bands where being conservative is the new rock n' roll. Screw that. Manchester enjoys blasting chords even if you're not ready for it (Pride, Shake It Off, etc.). Once the dust settles following a song like "Pride", the listener feels there is nowhere left to go after such an epic, angry, angry song, that should have been the album closer. But such a talented band would never place a track so high in the listing without intent. "In My Teeth" follows it up beautifully with an equal dose of pop and heavy, yet focused jamming. "100 Dollars" is every bit Bright Eyes as it is Neutral Milk Hotel as it has Andy Hull alone with an acoustic guitar singing of solitude in its first half with a heavily distorted electric guitar pairing with his scream for the second demanding money from his contemporaries. A strange track indeed, but wholly necessary.
Other highlights include "I Can Feel A Hot One" (dare you not to be touched by this song), and "My Friend Marcus", which also balances the tightrope act of pop and heavy rock. Hull's vocals have improved from the first album, sounding a bit raspier and even adding more of his native southern tinge. Guitars are turned up, anger is turned up, melody is turned up, can't wait for their new album, as I know that it will be groundbreaking.
Oh did I mention that "The River" is my favorite song on the album and that "I've Got Friends" is easily the best single I have heard in years giving a middle finger to the junk that radio and TV tries to feed us constantly.
Amen to bands like this, and godspeed to them for their new album. Get this, you won't be disappointed.
Description of Mean Everything To Nothing
2009 release. In the two years since the release of their 2007 debut, Manchester Orchestra have played over 300 shows and made fans across the globe. They have toured in support of Kings of Leon, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Brand New, Say Anything and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. They have performed at festivals around the world including Coachella, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Reading / Leeds (UK) and Laneway (Australia). While the debut was an attention-getting shot across the bow, Mean Everything To Nothing, produced by Joe Chicarelli (My Morning Jacket, The Raconteurs, The Shins), presents a substantial leap forward in sonic textures and song craft.Alternative Rock CDs
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