Kingsbury Manx

Hey, I'm in Erie, Pennsylvania right now, but about to move out, and I noticed that Blurt had put up my interview/feature on the Kingsbury Manx. 

WAITING FOR THE BACKLASH: The Kingsbury Manx

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For their new album the beloved, if perennially under-the-radar, Tarheel combo decided to throw caution to the wind and rock the fuck out…

 

BY JENNIFER KELLY

 

“We were joking about how we expected this to be the backlash record,” says songwriter Bill Taylor of the Kingsbury Manx, whose seventh full-length, #The Bronze Age# comes well into the second decade of the band’s career. And while earlier albums caught comparisons to soft-rock icons like the Beach Boys and the Byrds, this one rocks harder.

 

“We knew that on this record we were going to end up getting into some songs that were more upbeat in tempo and more straight ahead rock than people were probably used to from us – things that were a little out of our comfort zone,” Taylor continues. “I was wondering whether people would say, ‘These guys are really trying something new, that’s great.’ Or, ‘You guys should stick to what you know.’”

 

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Kingsbury Manx's Bronze Age

I've been really liking the new Kingsbury Manx album, the first in six years from the North Carolina psych pop outfit. There's nothing very flashy about the record. It's just sort of warm and engaging...very much in the vein of trippy country bands like Beachwood Sparks.

Anyway, it's out March 5th on Odessa (the label that did that excellent Spider Bags album from last year). You can stream the whole thing here.

This is an older video of "Harness and Wheel".