Manchester Orchestra is back. The Atlanta rockers will release A Black Mile to the Surface on July 28 via Loma Vista. It’s the outfit’s first full-length since 2014’s Cope, and a press release says it features production from Catherine Marks (Foals, PJ Harvey, The Killers), John Congleton (St. Vincent, Explosions In The Sky, Angel Olsen), and the band’s longtime studio partner Dan Hannon.
UPDATE: The band has announced a new tour, and it included a September 6 stop at The Ritz in Ybor City. Ticket prices have not been announced yet, but tickets do go on sale on June 16. Get more information via local.cltampa.com.
A new single — “The Gold” — signals a new direction for the band.
“We’re a band that loves to use heavy, crunchy guitars,” says frontman Andy Hull. “We wondered how we could limit the use of that, so that when the guitars come in they can be creative and impactful. For Swiss Army Man [a Sundance hit the boys worked on] we had to make seventy minutes of music with our hands tied behind our backs. When you’re creating all the sounds you need just from the human voice, it allows you to rethink what is possible, and determine what is really needed. We wanted to make an album in a ‘ non-Manchester’ way if there is such a thing.”
Call your local record store to see if they’ll carry the release. Listen to “The Gold” below.
A Black Mile to the Surface Tracklist:
01. The Maze
02. The Gold
03. The Moth
04. Lead, SD
05. The Allen
06. The Sunshine
07. The Grocery
08. The Wolf
09. The Mistake
10. The Parts
11. The Silence
This article appears in Jun 8-15, 2017.


