Manhattan by Skaters

Manhattan, the debut from New York's Skaters, came out on Warner Bros. in 2014, and it's a love letter to the city with the beer still sticky on it. Singer Michael Ian Cummings had met English guitarist Josh Hubbard at a party in Los Angeles, and when Hubbard turned up in New York, they grabbed drummer Noah Rubin and bassist Dan Burke, booked three shows and learned enough songs to fill them, padding out the set with Pixies covers.

They were all tending bar at the time, so the songs come from what they lived through and watched that first year, and from the characters who drifted through their nights. John Hill recorded it in the API room at Electric Lady Studios in Greenwich Village, and the sound is post-punk revival at its most wiry: clipped guitars, a restless beat and "Deadbolt" leading the charge.

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