Mean Everything to Nothing by Manchester Orchestra

Mean Everything to Nothing, the second album from Atlanta's Manchester Orchestra, came out on April 21, 2009, on Favorite Gentlemen Recordings, the independent label the band still records for. Joe Chiccarelli and Dan Hannon produced it, and they let Andy Hull's band sound as big as it wanted to, guitars swelling and crashing around Hull's cracked, raw-throated yelp while Robert McDowell stacks up the noise beside him.

The rollout came in a trio of videos: AbsolutePunk premiered "The Only One", Spin unveiled "Shake It Out" in late March, and lead single "I've Got Friends" got its clip on April 7. Critics were kind, and the record opened at number 37 on the Billboard 200 and number 11 on the Rock Albums chart. It was also the last album with drummer Jeremiah Edmond, who stepped away the following January to focus on his family and run that very label. Simple Math came next.

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