Up in Flames

Manitoba

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 8, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 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 (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #169,449 in Music (See Bestsellers 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

Product Description

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

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

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

By A Customer

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]

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Intoxicating Work, April 24, 2003

By	Wickerlove "Wickerlove" (Canada) - See all my reviews

This is easily my favorite CD of 2003 so far. It's basically an instrumental album that combines the adventurous sound of The Flaming Lips and the turntablist approach of DJ Shadow. In between is an amazing mixture of ingredients, from Krautrocks jazzlike improvisation, late 60's psychadelia, Wilco's roots rock, Brian Wilson's experimental use of sound, the spacey epics of Spiritualized, and Kevin Shields' production wizardry. The approach to sound/texture is almost similar to the 'cut and paste' blueprint of the Beta Band's first 2 albums, yet taking it to a much higher musical plane. All this is topped off with underlying, almost subliminal beats that glue this pastiche of sounds together. Manitoba fuses elements of each, shakes it up, and creates something that not only makes sense but is much larger and breathtaking than the sum of it's parts. 'Up In Flames' is truly a remarkable work demonstrating the intoxicating power of music, all under the spirit of a childrens workshop. The analogue 'Bitches Brew' for the 21st century, and for one brief moment...with Manitoba on the same level of genius of Miles Davis.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

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

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

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.