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4.0 out of 5 stars Kid You'll Move Mountains, 27 April 2004

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

Manitoba's 'Up in Flames' is a bold two fingers to the stale electronicascene and a glorious leap forward. Along with Four Tet's 'Rounds' it hasrekindled faith in the one-man-and-his-machine dynamic, dragging thelaptop boffin kicking and screaming out of the bedroom and into apsychedelic love-in free-for-all (metaphorically, anyway). A veritable oneman band, Canadian Dan Snaith has recorded his own 'Private PsychedelicReel' in a bombastic tour de force of 'live' drumming, spools of sax,treated vocal harmonies, wailing guitar solos, sitas and flutes. Asidesfrom the inevitable comparisons and accusations of plagiarism (early Lipsand Mercury Rev have been mentioned, as have MBV), you'll hear nothinglike it this year, from the kaleidoscopic party animal of 'Skunks', to thedrowsy hues of 'Jacknuggeted', and the David Axelrod-meets-Roni Size of'Twins'. Heartfelt and head-hammering at the same time, it's a raw,eccentric triumph.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Best Served with Sunshine and an Open Mind, 24 April 2003

By	C. W. Gramstadt "cgramstadt" (woking) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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

Its clear that Daniel Snaith, aka Manitoba, has been digging out a lot of old “shoegazing” records from the early nineties since the laptop glitch-fest of debut “Stop breaking my heart”. There are elements of MBV’s sonic experimentalism with vocals pitched beneath a fuzz of hazy effects and even – whisper it – Chapterhouse whose under-cherished Blood Music lp succesfully exploited the genre’s potential for experimenting with electronic music in the persuit of creating an even denser wall of sound.
To be fair, Leaf Records has always had the tendency to drift away from the perceived boundaries of some of its contemporaries – but this was still a bit of a shock. The closest comparisons I can make is of the Boo Radleys’ Sice attempting to sing Radial Spangle songs under the direction of Four Tet. I realise that for some of you, that description means as much to you as a New Labour manifesto and is just as difficult to comprehend so perhaps I’ll cut to the chase:
Up In Flames is fine summer-music for the 21st century. Clever electronics underpin lovely hazy melodies throughout the album. It never strays far from this underexplored template but highlight tracks like “I’ve lived on a dirt-track all my life”, “Hendrix KO” and single “Jacknuggeted” exemplify that Snaith has stumbled across a winning formula. Of course the next album will be completely different, so seize the moment and invest in the aural equivalent of waking up at 6pm on a sunny day at a festival with the afternoon’s local cider adding to the blissul confusion. That’s meant to be a good thing!

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5.0 out of 5 stars futurepsychenoisebeatpop!, 1 April 2003

By	Sick Mouthy (Exeter, Devon) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

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This is an extraordinary album!

I bought Manitoba's debut on the strength of Amazon recommending it to me after I rated Four Tet's 'Pause' highly, and to be honest I was underwhelmed. Sure, it was nice enough electronica, but it didn't have a great deal of spark, and it certainly didn't prepare me for this!

Canadian Dan Snaith has taken the best bits of everything that's ever been good ever and stuck them all together! I've not had such an overwhelming first-hearing reaction to a record as this since I was 17 and heard Orbital for the first time. I was squirming and jerking and smiling and laughing and dancing round the room within minutes.

Imagine, if you will (if you can), The Chemical Brothers mining the legacy of My Bloody Valentine, and downbeat electronica surrendering to Brian Wilson's brand of gorgeous woozy pop music, all rolled together into one cohesive and inspirational 40-minute package!

Big happy clattering drums rub up with multi-coloured guitars, spacey organs, glockenspiels (or xylophones, who knows?), occasional dreamy vocals, sliding clarinets, droning saxophones, all manner of gorgeous found-sound weirdness, beatific electronic passages and even the occasional frog.

I can't implore you enough to go out and buy this record - if you love music, and I mean REALLY LOVE MUSIC, then you ought to love this.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing...
What a letdown. Comparisons with Four Tet are a little misleading as I don't think the sound is as original or as clean... Read more

Published on 12 Jan 2005 by S. Hartshorn

5.0 out of 5 stars Refreshingly original
Refreshingly original. Perhaps the most original stuff I've heard since the Polyphonic Spree.

If you need a frame of reference on this, it's somewhere between Lemon Jelly and... Read more

Published on 7 Mar 2004 by Mr. R. M. Crawley

1.0 out of 5 stars Bag of soot.
How anyone could compare this derivative pap to the likes of My Bloody Valentine or Spaceman 3 is beyond my comprehension. Read more

Published on 26 Jan 2004 by nalced2

3.0 out of 5 stars errm, what the hell is this?
I loved 'start breaking my heart' so when I saw in the shop 'up in flames' I had to buy it.

I noticed the stickers on the case with glorious reviews from the music press which... Read more

Published on 25 Aug 2003 by J. Morris

5.0 out of 5 stars Finest album this year so far
I've spent the past year exploring the music world. I find some things I enjoyed but nothing had clicked like Up In Flames did. Read more

Published on 5 Aug 2003 by Mr. R. Shields

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't believe the hype
In a fit of passion (for new music) I recently spent my last tenner on this record by Manitoba that has been garnered with the most lavish of praise from all quarters of the music... Read more

Published on 25 April 2003 by Matt

5.0 out of 5 stars the most accessible album of elctrofolk genre
A beautiful combination of contrasts;
Explossive random sounds and heavy jazz break-beats against beautifully soft and melodic sound scapes. Read more

Published on 20 April 2003 by gavin john hughes

4.0 out of 5 stars Eclectic excellence
I bought this after an approving review in Uncut and I must say that it was better than I had imagined. This is the best new album I've heard this year so far. Read more

Published on 9 April 2003

4.0 out of 5 stars Multi-textured
I bought this on an impulse after some good reviews in the papers. Heralded as an 'everything bar the kitchen-sink' album that should appeal in equal measure to both indie and... Read more

Published on 5 April 2003 by R. A. Langham

4.0 out of 5 stars Derivative, but good
Undeniably influenced by the likes of My Bloody Valentine and, most obviously, Spritualized (before they became bloated and pompous) this album could hardly be described as ground... Read more

Published on 31 Mar 2003

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