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SUMMARY:Manchester Orchestra
DESCRIPTION:Following their acclaimed 2021 album The Million Masks of God\,
  Manchester Orchestra is back with The Valley of Vision\, a brand new proj
 ect that takes on the weighty themes of adulthood\, faith and redemption t
 hrough a wealth of fresh new sounds and textures. But if The Million Masks
  of God served as a cry for help - exploring a man’s encounter with the 
 angel of death\, inspired by frontman and songwriter Andy Hull’s reflect
 ions on grief as well as the battle with cancer faced by guitarist Robert 
 McDowell’s father - The Valley of Vision offers a collective\, cathartic
  expression of gratitude. Throughout the 27-minute album\, you can almost 
 feel the band take a giant exhale and then put its arms around you.\n\nCon
 tinuing to push themselves into fascinating and immersive creative realms 
 with each release has always been the mantra for Manchester Orchestra\, an
 d The Valley of Vision finds the band reinvigorated once again. Across the
  six-song salvo and VR film out March 10th\, the band conjures a story tha
 t is further illuminated through a cinematic experience by writer-director
  Isaac Deitz\, created with 3D-computed radiography technology. \n\nHull 
 started writing and recording The Valley of Vision in the summer of 2021\,
  sparking a spontaneous and new approach to releasing his band's music. 
 “Making this was an exciting idea of what the future could be for us in 
 terms of how we create.”\n\nHull was inspired to begin writing the recor
 d while rummaging around in his suitcase looking for his lyric notebook an
 d instead found The Valley of Vision\, a 1975 book of old Puritan prayers 
 his mom had given to him the previous Christmas. “I realized it should b
 e our title too\, because to me\, it meant you can’t see the forest for 
 the trees\, but you’re recognizing you’re in the valley\, and you can 
 eventually get out\,” he says.\n\nSonically\, those energies evoke place
 s Manchester Orchestra has visited on prior albums without ever really set
 ting up a permanent home. In fact\, there’s not much guitar at all on Th
 e Valley of Vision\, and Andy Prince’s bass operates in sub-synth freque
 ncies rarely utilized before. In other instances\, drum parts by Tim Very 
 were excised from one song and repurposed in other places they weren’t o
 riginally intended to go. The whole feeling is one of peacefulness\, even 
 zen — perhaps because recording sessions at a converted manor in Muscle 
 Shoals\, Ala.\, were “almost a complete abandonment of all the instrumen
 ts we’re used to using\,” Hull says.\n\n“None of these songs were wr
 itten with the band being in the same room in a live setting\,” he conti
 nues. “They were really like science experiments that started from the b
 ottom and were added to gradually over time\, to catch the vibe of each on
 e.”\n\nOpener “Capital Karma” and “Quietly” are both songs Hull 
 composed via his idiosyncratic self-taught methods on piano\, which involv
 e him physically writing notes on the keys to remind himself what he’s a
 ctually playing. “The Way” is a beautifully atmospheric\, piano-and-be
 ats-powered ballad\, which Hull credits Million Masks producers Ethan Grus
 ka and Catherine Marks with helping him shape after struggling for years w
 ith how to present it.\n\nElsewhere\, the uplifting “Lose You Again” i
 s the first Manchester Orchestra song in a long time that could be played 
 with acoustic guitars around a campfire\, while “Letting Go” threads w
 isps of emotive\, effects-drenched vocals through gorgeous shimmers of sou
 nd. \n\n“We decided\, let’s live in that feeling\,” Hull says. “W
 hen we tried to add anything that took us out of it\, it started to feel c
 ontrived and forced. We try to listen to our instincts when it comes to th
 at. As far as just going for some of the sounds\, we’re intrigued by doi
 ng things the wrong way or attempting things we haven’t done before and 
 getting inspired by them.”
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