The five young men making up Atlanta’s Manchester Orchestra were barely out of their teens when they self-released their full-length debut, 2006’s I’m Like a Virgin Losing a Child. But supple-voiced group leader Andy Hull had already been honing his songwriting and guitar chops for years and even recorded a whole other, unreleased album with an earlier lineup of the band, so the maturity and confidence of I’m Like a Virgin … really wasn’t a surprise. Since then, Manchester Orchestra has toured heavily, garnered favorable comparisons to Death Cab for Cutie and even been tapped by Rolling Stone as an “artist to watch.” No doubt plenty of fans will be doing just that when Hull and Co. release Mean Everything to Nothing this spring.
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