Let You Down

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

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 036172610921
EAN: 0036172610921
ASIN: B00005NNG1

Release Date: 2001-09-18

Let You Down

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Tracks:

Let You Down
Porchlight
Simplify
Et Tu, Kitte?
Rustic Stairs
Sleeping On The Ground
Courtyard Waltz
Patterns Shape The Mile
Arun
The New Evil
Baby You're A Dead Man
Do What You're Told

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Kingsbury Manx's second album, Let You Down, comes as a reminder that the simplest pleasures, often, are the best. "We have tried / To simplify our lives / To balance lows and highs," sing the Kingsbury Manx, on the gorgeous, lilting "Simplify." As rock & roll statements of intent go, you seldom come across a more humble claim--but then, anyone who's heard the North Carolina quartet's eponymous 2000 debut should know that theirs is a talent that you really don't need to shout in anyone's face. The unexpected success of The Kingsbury Manx found these four shy college graduates hitting the road with Calexico and Stephen Malkmus. While the follow-up, Let You Down, was recorded with one-time Slint producer Brian Paulson in sleepy Virginia, this is far from a difficult math-rock beast: characterized by the guitar-sliding, bass-stroking, cymbal-teasing all-round gentleness of the opening title track, and gliding through wry banjo-accompanied lullabies ("Et Tu, Kitte?"), lavish orchestral happenings ("Baby You're a Dead Man"), and incandescent, harmony-laden alt-rock dreamers ("Courtyard Waltz"). It all ends on "Do What You're Told": the sound of the four Kingsbury Manxers, "drunk as winos," stretched out in a meadow, playing guitars and watching aeroplanes paint long curves of vapor across the clear blue sky. --Louis Pattison

Customer Reviews:

One of the best albums of this year.......2005-10-13

I am amazed that anyone could not like this album. I understand not being a huge fan, but not liking it? c'mon. The best way I can describe it as sort of proggy-country. Lush and mellow, a brilliant album to listen to on a rainy day. One of its biggests strengths is its overlooked hooks. Too often this type of music lacks command of structure and tries to reach to far and strays from the song's intention. The beauty of this album is that it floats out there, but constrains itself at the same time. I found this album better than the previous and latter albums, but I am excited by what I've heard on the newest album. I've given a lot of abstract descriptions to describe this album, but what it comes down to is that you'll like this if you like:
belle and sebastian
crooken fingers
high llamas
kings of convenience
sea and cake (the quieter songs)

Baby steps.......2002-05-09

KM's first release was a nice change on the indie scene, very mellow simple guitars and sleepy lyrics. Their second effort shows a more developed style of guitars and some better rhythms. I found it a little easier to listen to from beginning to end, a nice overall consistant mellow disc. If you liked their first release, you will almost certainly like this one more, not a huge improvement but a quality steady improvement.

brilliant.......2002-02-06

I hope this review is put right under the guy who only gave this record 2 stars. What an ...!! This record is great. It has elements of everything that is good and unpretentious in indie rock. All of you Romulans out there, you know who you are- black hair, cut shaggy, short pants, bad skin, etc... Don't expect a flashy, stylish, hip mod looking group of guys creating this music, those dudes can't create this kind of music, they are too concerned with creating an image, not a sound. I like this band because it's so much different than all of the above. Real music, real warmth, real sadness, real emotion (no emo, no freakn' screaming here). Read the other reviews of this album, those people seem to have a pretty good grasp on it.

brilliant.......2002-02-06

This record is great. It has elements of everything that is good and unpretentious in indie rock. All of you Romulans out there, you know who you are- black hair, cut shaggy, short pants, bad skin, etc... Don't expect a flashy, stylish, hip mod looking group of guys creating this music, those dudes can't create this kind of music, they are too concerned with creating an image, not a sound. I like this band because it's so much different than all of the above. Real music, real warmth, real sadness, real emotion (no emo, no freakn' screaming here). Read the other reviews of this album, those people seem to have a pretty good grasp on it.

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