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“There’s a decision we’re faced with when experiencing loss and the inevitable grief that follows. The album is a testament to the kinship of the band’s songwriting duo, Andy Hull and Robert McDowell a bond that enabled them to take a deeply personal experience and turn it into limitless, compassionate, communal, revelatory art. Manchester Orchestra’s sixth album The Million Masks of God-due out April 30th, 2021, via Loma Vista Recordings-showcases the strength and boundary-pushing invention of Manchester Orchestra’s consistently impressive catalog. Fans of Thrice, Bright Eyes, Jimmy Eat World and mewithoutYou should get well into this. Expansive indie-folk blended seamlessly with a alt-rock edge, tied together with spellbinding vocal harmonies and grand crescendos.

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Tracks like ‘ Trees,’ ‘ All That I Really Wanted,’ and the final, title track, consistently delivers the kind of humungous, thunderously ominous sound that truly makes ' Cope', at times, a satisfying listen.Manchester Orchestra The Million Masks of God The sixth full length album from the incredible Manchester Orchestra, following on from the acclaimed 2017 album A Black Mile To The Surface. Having said all of this, ' Cope' is by no means a bad record. Instead of adding something oddly haunting and unique to Hull’s songwriting, as on Simple Math, the body of the record is sorely lacking. It’s not the lyrics that let the album down, but that on slow tracks like ‘ Indentions’ and even the title track ‘ Cope,’ there’s nothing in the blended guitar/percussion ensemble or the drawn out, repetitious vocal melody, which affirms the unusual power of the lyrics. On ‘ The Ocean’ Hull sings in his standard twang ‘ I let go, I give it to the ocean’ and that’s about as specific as he gets, and on ‘ Girl Harbor’ the lyrics are typically straight to the point.

Manchester Orchestra always had a way of saying the most profound things in the most succinct way, and ' Cope' is no different. On ‘ Choose You’ and later on ‘ The Mansion’ a thick and staunchly baseline, characterised by noise, lots of fleshed out, rubbery noise, lays a yellow brick road for Hull’s minimalist lyrics. The lead vocals and songwriting are, as to be expected, first class, and Andy Hull does a fantastic job of bringing the air of the record together with the instrumentals, with his commanding vocal performance alone. 'Cope' beings with ‘ Top Notch,’ and subsequently, a whole lot of theatrical reverb and a base-line drop, repeated for dramatic effect.

' Cope' is a mixture of both of these outcomes the band aren’t really creating material that is a pinpoint-able progression of their talents, but there’ s still a glimpse of something larger that is not fully realised on the final product.

Were they to loiter in the safe zone and opt for regurgitating old material? Fans might have something to say about it, but equally so, if the band aimed for new and uncharted stars and fell short of fully realizing the vision for the record, you’d notice. Having taken the alternative rock world truly by storm in 2011 with the tornado of delectable musical sounds that was Simple Math, three years later the fame and fortune of Manchester Orchestra rested on pulling out of a hat a full length bigger and better than the last.