Let You Down

Kingsbury Manx | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 18, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Overcoat Recordings
• ASIN: B00005NNG1
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #240,429 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sublime, November 26, 2001

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Someone from the Lower East Side (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Let You Down (Audio CD)

My music tastes recently lean heavily towards downtempo, dub, and IDM. I find much indie music as tired and too esoteric for its own good. However, walking into Kims Video last week and hearing this superb album renewed my faith that sometimes the simplest songs can leave you breathless. This is a sublime album, much like the first time I hear Galaxie 500 On Fire, Boards of Canada's Music Has A Right To Children, or Leonard Cohen's Songs of Love and Hate. The songs are haunting, possessing a dreamlike quality that is both nostalgic and beautiful. Literally, these songs will drive you to tears, for no apparent reason. I'm eager to buy Kingsbury Manx's first release, I've heard it's equally amazing.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars brilliant, February 5, 2002

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Stryker Stereo (Albany CA.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Let You Down (Audio CD)

I hope this review is put right under the guy who only gave this record 2 stars. What an ...!! This record is great. It has elements of everything that is good and unpretentious in indie rock. All of you Romulans out there, you know who you are- black hair, cut shaggy, short pants, bad skin, etc... Don't expect a flashy, stylish, hip mod looking group of guys creating this music, those dudes can't create this kind of music, they are too concerned with creating an image, not a sound. I like this band because it's so much different than all of the above. Real music, real warmth, real sadness, real emotion (no emo, no freakn' screaming here). Read the other reviews of this album, those people seem to have a pretty good grasp on it.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars brilliant, February 5, 2002

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Stryker Stereo (Albany CA.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Let You Down (Audio CD)

This record is great. It has elements of everything that is good and unpretentious in indie rock. All of you Romulans out there, you know who you are- black hair, cut shaggy, short pants, bad skin, etc... Don't expect a flashy, stylish, hip mod looking group of guys creating this music, those dudes can't create this kind of music, they are too concerned with creating an image, not a sound. I like this band because it's so much different than all of the above. Real music, real warmth, real sadness, real emotion (no emo, no freakn' screaming here). Read the other reviews of this album, those people seem to have a pretty good grasp on it.