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Album Review

The Kingsbury Manx Afternoon Owls
Cooking Vinyl

Article written by Ged M
Feb 6, 2005.

The Kingsbury Manx have never been a band big on information about who they are or what they’re doing. Their press release for ‘Afternoon Owls’ says plenty about their past achievements, all in the public domain, and nothing new about their motivation for releasing this EP. But you can piece together a story from the clues…

The five track EP was originally released in late 2003 in the US, on the back of the ‘Aztec Discipline’ album that year (the album was only released in the UK in Summer 2004). Both were recorded in Duck-Kee Studios in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and represent a more pastoral, country sound. The UK release of ‘Afternoon Owls’ is enhanced by 8 minutes and versions of three songs from ‘Aztec Discipline’.

The new tracks have a country or folk-country feel. If the theme of ‘Aztec Discipline’ was falling out of love, ‘Half Man’ keeps that going with a sweet banjo-laden tune undermined by sinister hints. ‘Perfect Record’ has a woozy country feel and the hypno-ballad ‘We’re On the Way’ is a dreamier Sonic Youth. By contrast, ‘Over the Waves’ has waves of droning guitars like Yo La Tengo. Meanwhile the final two, electronic, tracks, remixed by Mikael Jorgensen, are dramatically different to what’s gone before with their 80s synth-pop rhythms. At 25 minutes long, it’s technically not exactly an album but it is excellent music for those drowsy closed-eyes-warm-sun-on-face days.

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