Zwar liegt die Veröffentlichung bereits gute zwei Jahre zurück, doch ab und an (und trotz meinen Kritteleien) fasziniert mich der jüngste Manchester Orchestra-Langspieler „A Black Mile To The Surface“ mit all seinen geschickt eingebauten Klangexperimenten und ungewöhnlichen Hooks noch immer – ein sicheres Zeichen dafür, dass Frontmann Andy Hull und seine Bandmates Robert McDowell, Andy Prince und Tim Very mit Studioalbum Nummer fünf tatsächlich ein Werk mit Tiefgang und Substanz in die Regale gestellt haben, welches wohl nur etwas mehr Zeit und Beachtung benötigt. Siehe etwa: der durchaus monumentale Album-Rausschmeisser „The Silence“. Ganz großes Indierock-Tennis, meine Herren…
„Why do I deserve the silence to feel better about you?
At a loss I lost my cool
I denied that I found you
I tried to be a basket case
I did not surprise you
I’m trying to find a signal fire
Let me know when I should move
But you, amplified in the silence
Justified in the way you make me bruise
Magnified in the science
Anatomically proved that you don’t need me
Why do I desire the space?
I was mourning after you
I was lost and lost my shape
There was nothing I could do
I don’t want to waste away
It was all I gave to you
Take me back and take my place
I will rise right up for you
But you, amplified in the silence
Justified in the way you make me bruise
Magnified in the science
Anatomically proved that you don’t need me
All the while you waste away, you’re asking
‚Did I really need another one to take me down?‘
Everybody knows it’s something that you had to live with, darling
Nobody’s gonna tear you down now
There is nothing you keep, there is only your reflection
There was nothing but quiet retractions
And families pleading, „Don’t look in that cabinet
There’s far more bad than there’s good, I don’t know how it got there“
That was something your father had burned in me
Twenty hours out of Homestake eternity
‚You can go anywhere but you are where you came from‘
Little girl, you are cursed by my ancestry
There is nothing but darkness and agony
I can not only see, but you stopped me from blinking
Let me watch you as close as a memory
Let me hold you above all the misery
Let me open my eyes and be glad that I got here
There is nothing you keep, there is only your reflection“
Rock and Roll.
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