Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math
This is my first Manchester Orchestra album. It's always a bit of a risk jumping in the middle of someone's discography because you're naturally oblivious to what is (potentially) better material, or in the very least unaware of the band's progress and stylings. Nonetheless the general impression of the band I get is a fondness for strings (I'm sure there's a cheap pun with regard to their name here but I cannot be arsed), mellow rock and sensitivities that place them somewhere in the same bracket as Mumford and Sons or Neil Young. As is to be expected with such a band - Pitchfork have been rather cruel on them in the past. Yet the consensus elsewhere is overwhelmingly positive. Indeed on opening track 'Deer' the band roll around dustily in atmospherics and the vocal harmonies of Andy Hull, but the lyrics are more than your typical folk artist: "Dear everybody that has paid to see my band / it's still confusing, we'll never understand / I ac...