Manchester Orchestra

Atlanta's Manchester Orchestra announced their new album THE MILLION MASKS OF GOD will be released April 30th via Loma Vista Recordings/Concord. Concurrently, the first single, “Bed Head,” arrived February 18th alongside a cinematic video directed by Andrew Donoho, which finds a home haunted by a spectral Andy Hull. It's the first new music from Manchester Orchestra in four years. "‘Bed Head’ is two old friends existing in two separate realities,” explains Hull. "It’s a conversation about the lives they lived, the consequences of life’s decisions, and finding purpose in trying to be better." 

Produced by Manchester Orchestra’s lead songwriting duo of Hull and Robert McDowell, Catherine Marks (PJ Harvey, The Killers) and Ethan Gruska (Phoebe Bridgers, Fiona Apple), THE MILLION MASKS OF GOD presents an even grander scale of the epic and re-focused approach to record-making that the band has forged in recent years. Their sixth album finds Hull, McDowell, Tim Very (drums), and Andy Prince (bass) relentlessly pushing themselves to create a work that breaks beyond the scope and limits of every previous release in an effort to create their most towering achievement to date, all while sorting through the aftermath of a devastating loss. 

Manchester Orchestra was formed in 2004 and is currently made up of rhythm guitarist-singer-songwriter Andy Hull, lead guitarist Robert McDowell, bassist Andy Prince and drummer Tim Very. They have released several EPs and five studio albums: I'M LIKE A VIRGIN LOSING A CHILD (2006), MEAN EVERYTHING TO NOTHING (2009), SIMPLE MATH (2011), COPE (2014) (as well as its accompanying acoustic version, “Hope”), and A BLACK MILE TO THE SURFACE (2017), which featuring "The Gold" Top 15 at Alternative and #1 Triple A Radio.

Hull’s early concept for the new record was a natural extension of the main theme of its predecessor. “If Black Mile was this idea of ‘from birth to death,’ this album would really be more about ‘from birth to beyond, focusing on the highs and lows of life and exploring what could possibly come next,’” said Hull.

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