Up in Flames

Manitoba | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 8, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Domino
• ASIN: B00008OM39
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #195,560 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I've Lived On A Dirt Road All My Life

2. Skunks

3. Hendrix With Ko (featuring Koushik)

4. Jacknuggeted

5. Why the Long Face

6. Bijoux

7. Twins

8. Kid You'll Move Mountains

9. Crayon (featuring Koushik)

10. Every Time She Turns Round It's Her Birthday

Editorial Reviews

Second album from Dan 'Manitoba' Snaith. For fans of Boards Of Canada, Eno & Aphex Twin. Domnio. 2003.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars From the OtherMusic.com website...., April 20, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Up in Flames (Audio CD)

Here's what Other Music, a store in New York, had to say about the Manitoba record:

Manitoba's second album, "Up In Flames" is a production
masterpiece. Dan Snaith hinted at the genius that lay within on his
first album "Start Breaking My Heart", but where that album was a
pastoral journey in downtempo beats, jazzy textures and bedroom
electronics, this album is full of '60s psychedelic flourishes, tape
loops, distorted guitars, and some of the most beautiful melodies
heard since "Loveless". It is extremely rare for an artist to produce
two entirely different sounding records with the masterful expertise
that Manitoba has, all the while creating albums that are destined to
become classics. "Up in Flames" is like Spiritualized with beats, or
Mercury Rev mixed with the Beach Boys. I truly believe that this is
what My Bloody Valentine would sound like today (especially after
hearing Kevin Shields' remixes of Mogwai and Primal Scream from a
few years back). "Up In Flames" is the essential blissed out late
night album for 2003. Truly Amazing! [JS]

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow!, April 26, 2003

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Janos Sitar (Victoria, BC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Up in Flames (Audio CD)

How often to do hear hand clapping in Electroinc musc? Right, never. Well, now you have and you love it. The sound of those jangly guitars and hands clapping just make you want to dance and shake and do all sorts of crazy things. The songs that you want your life to be soundtracked by if they made a movie about you. Quite possibly perfect in its jubilence.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Electronica for rock fans, December 30, 2003

By 

G. Rao "grao!!!" (san francisco) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Up in Flames (Audio CD)

This seems to be part of a wave of recent electronica that doesn't sound like the "oomph-chicka-oomph-chicka" danceclub stuff I've come to associate with the word electronica. I guess artists like Moby or Air have been around for a while, but this is something entirely different. Basically, "Up in Flames" is electronic music for rock fans. The songs are composed in a verse/chorus/verse manner, and the sonic texture is organic sounding. The opener "I've lived on a dirt road..." is a scorcher, luring you in with an elctro-folky little vocal and guitar melody, and then trampling you underneath an insanely syncopated jungle beat. The song after that, "Skunks" just might be the best one on the album. "Jacknuggeted" is also a great song, although it starts off sounding pretty boring... at first. It sneaks up on you though, and before you know it, you're tapping your feet and swinging your head around gleefully. Comparisons to the Flaming Lips and My Bloody Valentine are apt, but this album explores a space thats not entirely identifiable as rock music, but is flush with entrancing, ethereal tuneage and rump shaking beats nonetheless.