Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile to the Surface (July 28, 2017) Album • Page 230

"take the time to terrify the throne"

That's the background voice at the end of The Alien

 

Acoustic The Grocery is being played now on a live stream on their facebook

 

did he sing the at the same pitch he does on the recording? that would be nuts

 

If you guys haven't checked it out yet. Transform by Gobotron (Robert McDowell) is a fantastic one dimensional album. Great commute tunes

 

So this may be pretty personal, but as someone who has a little brother (half brother) who has been calling me crying because my mom and his dad are getting a divorce....this album really fucking burns deep sometimes. There really is so much damage and baggage and shit that gets dumped down on the kids to no fault of their own.

My stepdad had an awful abusive childhood with no true father figure besides an angry drunk stepdad and his mom died when he was 17. He was paying the bills by 16 and just had to stick his head down until I guess he finally cracked this year after shouldering all the family responsibility.


I'm sure I don't have to explain all the significance between The Gold to The Silence to what have you...but it really just builds up my existential dread and worry about my future family and what my kids will have to deal with and go through. Round 2 of divorce doesn't help to instill any sort of confidence in relationships.

I just hope that I'm able to learn from it all and "hold them above the misery" if you will.

Music has really been such a source of emotional shelter and storage for me since I had a bad break up a few years back and it seems to continue as I keep aging.

 

Thank you for sharing this. I'm glad this album can be some kind of solace for you. I don't know where I'd be without music. Actually, I do, and thank god music was there to keep me from it.

 

thanks for sharing Kyle, glad this album was able to help you with what you are going through. Music is such great therapy. I've tried to walk away from music as a career a few times but it always pulls me back in some way, shape or form.

 

Listened to this in full with my fiancée today on a walk, so perfect for cold final night of September. Really excited for the show tomorrow

 

Man, I'm sorry you've had to go through that and your family. I immediately thought of the "Let me hold you above all the misery" line when I started reading. That line, dark as it is, gives me so much hope in regards to starting a family despite my shaky past.

 

Seeing this band tonight, sort of meh about it, they arnt very good live.. I hope they play shake it out 14 times

 

For half a second teebs....for half a second

 

Well this joke feels familiar...

Just kidding ALFM

 

Holy shit that was incredible.. how do they keep getting better??(

 

The grocery and the moth were absolutely incredible.. also during I can feel a hot one someone screamed out during the piano part.. why?? Why??? Why??? Why!?!

 

The wait to see them in FEBRUARY is going to be very difficult. Glad to hear it was amazing @teebs41!

 

Andy freakin killed it last night, he hit the note on the grocery so clean it’s insane. Andy prince also killed it, he is such an important part of this band.. but he’s replaceable. Their stage presence was very good last night, it’s like they all know they have to step it up now that chris is gone.

 

I can NOT believe I missed this tour. So fucking pissed. Really hope they do a US run in the Spring/Summer.

 

hey thread how much will you pay for a picture of teebs and i tomorrow???

 

All the cash in my wallet right now

 

$0.14 each. Do you have venmo?

 

make it 0.69, the nicest amount of cash

 

An internet high five?

 

Nice

 

I'm more excited to see them tomorrow than I was yesterday, just bc they were so good last night. I just want to listen to The Moth live forever.