Manchester Orchestra A Black Mile To The Surface

Personnel: Andy Hull (vocals, guitar); Robert McDowell (guitar, keyboards, background vocals); Tim Very (drums).Audio Mixer: Catherine Marks.Recording information: Echo Mountain Recording; Elmwood West; Favorite Gentlemen Studios; The Village Studios.Photographers: The Daniels; Mike Dempsey.Georgia's Manchester Orchestra deliver one of their most balanced and mature efforts with their fifth full-length album, 2017's measured A Black Mile to the Surface. Technically, the album is a follow-up to the group's 2014 return to electric guitar-based hardcore, Cope, and companion piece Hope, which featured acoustic reworkings of songs from Cope. That said, A Black Mile to the Surface also follows on the heels of lead singer Andy Hull and keyboardist Robert McDowell's much lauded and experimental soundtrack to the 2016 dark comedy-drama Swiss Army Man. That album found them crafting entirely vocal-based arrangements that evoked both the layered harmonies of the Beach Boys and the minimalist clas