Cope by Manchester Orchestra

Cope, the fourth album from Atlanta's Manchester Orchestra, landed on April 1, 2014, a joint release between Loma Vista and Favorite Gentlemen, the band's own independent imprint, and it hits like a cinder block through a window. The band produced it themselves alongside their long-time collaborator Dan Hannon, and John Agnello mixed it at Fluxivity Studios in Brooklyn, keeping everything thick, loud and relentless.

Andy Hull howls over a wall of fuzz, Robert McDowell's lead guitar grinds and churns, Andy Prince's bass rumbles underneath, and Tim Very pounds the drums like he's trying to break through the floor. There's barely a breather in it. "Top Notch" was the first single, released in January 2014, followed by "Every Stone" in February, and the band later turned the songs inside out on Hope, an acoustic companion to the record.

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