The Kingsbury Manx

The Kingsbury Manx Artist: The Kingsbury Manx
Label: Overcoat Recordings
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 036172610426
EAN: 0036172610426
ASIN: B00003XA7H


Release Date: 2000-01-18

The Kingsbury Manx


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Tracks:

  1. Pageant Square
  2. Regular Hands
  3. Piss Diary
  4. Cross Your Eyes
  5. Blue Eurasians
  6. Hawaii In Ten Seconds
  7. How Cruel
  8. Fields
  9. New Old Friends Blues
  10. Whether Or Not It Matters
  11. Fanfare
  12. Silver Trees

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You'll hear the precedent for this album in the dustiest corners of Simon & Garfunkel's <I>Bookends</I>, in the tender devotionals of the Beach Boys' <I>Pet Sounds</I>, and on the sun-baked gospel-soul of Lambchop's <I>Nixon</I>. Idle comparisons maybe, but it's true that the Kingsbury Manx talk louder through their songs than through contrived image. The best kept secret of Chapel Hill, North Carolina--so much so that when they emerged with this debut album, local commentators refused to believe that it was their work--the Kingsbury Manx are four retiring college graduates who write songs that invigorate the rock form in a way unheard since Built to Spill's <I>Perfect from Now On</I>. This is an album of exquisite moments--check the spine-tingling slide-guitar whirl of "Blue Eurasians," the gorgeous a cappella glide of "Hawaii in Ten Seconds," and frontman Kenneth Stephenson's emotive choral pleas on "Piss Diary." While <I>The Kingsbury Manx</I> is not a stone-cold classic, this is merely the springtime of their existence. A glorious future beckons. <I>--Louis Pattison</I>

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars It aimlessly walks away and never comes back.......2006-10-18

With most ambitious albums, the songs take you places you never thought you would go but always manage to tie everything together towards the closing of the album. This album just keeps going. I'm not saying that it's a lengthy album, I'm just saying that it never brings everything full circle, it never comes together. The songs are seperate from on another while the music is not.

It sounds like at first they recorded these songs on speed, then listened to them later while taking anti depressants and decided to re-record them at a slower tempo.

It has a couple of good songs but no lasting memories.

5 out of 5 stars Indeed................2003-01-29

Incredible album on all fronts.....very clever and calm lyrical delivery coupled with nice looping riffs to put you in a daze. Varying sound throughout the album keep you off balance but on the same path you are sure not to stray from. Do yourself a favor and purchase this record.....you will not regret it. Do yourself a bigger favor and see them live if you get a chance!

2 out of 5 stars Decent, respectable, nonphenomenal.......2002-08-01

In the continual search for good music, my wife bought me this CD. Considering she had also previously surprised me with such gems as Built to Spill's "keep it like a secret" and Grandaddy's "The Sophtware Slump" I was enthusiastic. However, I listened to the album and thought it was only so-so. The band has a good sound, but something didn't click. That's fine, I don't expect to like something the very first time I hear it. But the problem was that after repeated listenings over the last year or so this album has never grown on me. I feel like I should like it, because the band is talented and some of the songs (Tracks 1 and 8) stand out, but even so it still seems bland to me. Perhaps their sophomore effort "let you down" is better. Or aptly titled.

2 out of 5 stars Just average, really...2 and a half stars........2002-03-05

A lot people like this band, but five stars??

These guys do weave a hypnotic spell. Their dynamic wants to take the listener to a point where you fully expect the music to really take off and rock out. But it never quite does..leaving you wanting more. Like almost achieving orgasm. They do this quite well on songs like Cross Your Eyes, Blue Eurasians and Fanfare; and the effect approaches excitement.

They have a good sound and play well. The main problem is that most of the songs just aren't that strong or involving.

Not bad, especially for a debut, but not good enough to make me want to rush out and buy their new release...I'll wait til it shows up in the 'used' bin.

5 out of 5 stars

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