Manitoba- Up In Flames

It's like one of those albums you can't wait to listen to from the very beginning to the last seconds of the end. The first song seems so perfect, with a vocal delay choked up by heavy phasing and acoustic guitar strumming brings the song into a breakbeat-esque beat sampling drum beats to such an epic song already and to end up to a kinda of free jazz feel and an ambient minimal beat congested with little what sounds like birds chirping. Manitoba does a great job keeping you in his song, capturing you easily, having you figuring out 'what was that i just heard'. p.s. the song is called 'I've lived on a dirt road all my life' i think you'll enjoy that song. the CD goes on and on with what it seems like many influences from free jazz, breakbeat, dream pop, noise rock, shoegaze. Manitoba does a great job mixing all his influences in this CD. Up in Flames in my opinion is a great way of showing you he loves music and is open minded to experimenting. Some of you might recognize the distinct similarities to Caribou well this is not a trademark incident but a lawsuit with Richard Manitoba aka The Handsomest Man in Rock n Roll forcing Manitoba to change his name to Caribou, yes. Caribou. Well anyways this album was released under Manitoba in 2003 and was re-issued 3 years later under the moniker Caribou. So that clears up the confusion you might have had with Manitoba and Caribou at Amoeba before you decided to leave it at the store thinking it was the same CD, well you missed out because when it was re-issued in 2006 they released 6 more songs in an extra disc. So run back and get those other tracks, hurry before supplies last, haha. Anyways, I hope you go buy the album and support Caribou on his upcoming tour he'll be at the El Rey Theater April 24. Blessings.

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