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Up in Flames is Manitoba's second album, following on from 2001's Start Breaking My Heart. Dan Snaith plays guitar, keyboards and glockenspiel, but now he's tired of laptop-generated solo performance and is set to take a full live combo out on the road. Nevertheless, this disc remains an almost completely one-man experience. Mr Manitoba is adept at stirring up a dreamy, psychedelic pop miasma, with the opening "I've Lived on a Dirt Road All My Life" sounding backwards when it's going forwards, its jittery drums rearing up out of a wall-of-mush production. "Skunks" has a full-cream bass line and some ferrety s
Up in Flames is Manitoba's second album, following on from 2001's Start Breaking My Heart. Dan Snaith plays guitar, keyboards and glockenspiel, but now he's tired of laptop-generated solo performance and is set to take a full live combo out on the road. Nevertheless, this disc remains an almost completely one-man experience. Mr Manitoba is adept at stirring up a dreamy, psychedelic pop miasma, with the opening "I've Lived on a Dirt Road All My Life" sounding backwards when it's going forwards, its jittery drums rearing up out of a wall-of-mush production. "Skunks" has a full-cream bass line and some ferrety saxophone outbursts emerging from its kaleidoscopic jangle. "Hendrix with KO" is a breezily melodic shuffle and "Jacknuggeted" develops a strummy heat-haze that has electronica patterns streaked across in a watercolour wash. "Every Time She Turns Round, It's Her Birthday" benefits from a distorted split-stereo vocal and "Bijoux" saves all of Snaith's favourite tricks for one glorious shag-pile spill, starting with his tingling glockenspiel, then rolling out the thick organ, acoustic guitar chords, fruity saxophone and an angelic vocal chorus. --Martin Longley
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Manufacturer: The Leaf Label
Release date: 31 March 2003
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0666017051222 UPC: 666017051222
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