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Manchester Orchestra: "I've Got Friends" (Video)

1:35 p.m. · May 8, 2009 · by Andrew Winistorfer

Manchester Orchestra remind me of a less shrieky Silversun Pickups. The way both bands more or less decided that Alice and Chains and Smashing Pumpkins' mid-90s output is basically the shit, both bands sing about over-wrought emotions like pissed off 17-year-olds, and how all their songs are required to run close to five minutes and be packed with multiple maxed-out tone shifts is pretty similar.

Here's the video for Manchester Orchestra's "I've Got Friends," a crushing song that finds lead singer Andy Hull shouting about having friends in all the right places as people, who look appropriately retro, remember the times when they had friends, and such. His band is muscular backing him up, but make no mistake, he's running the show here.

Manchester Orchestra's Mean Everything to Nothing is out now. [MTV]