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Manchester Orchestra - I'm Like A Virgin... (Gold) [VINYL]

Manchester Orchestra - I'm Like A Virgin... (Gold) [VINYL]

This item will be released on October 16, 2026
£31.98
£31.98
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This item will be released on Friday 16th October. It will be shipped to arrive on or around the release date.

What's most striking about Manchester Orchestra's debut full-length, I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child, isn't how much the Atlanta-based group have evolved in the two decades since its release, but how much of their identity was already there from the very beginning. Recorded without a label, outside expectations or even a surplus of material, the album found the band embracing spontaneity over perfection and, in the process, establishing the emotional and sonic hallmarks that would become their defining quality.The organ that swells throughout the album-opening "Wolves at Night" recalls the band's Southern gospel upbringing, but when laid atop a dirty, downtuned guitar riff indebted to '90s fuzz, it creates competing impulses that ripple through every corner of the record. Songs that begin as near-whispers swell into walls of sound, while the droning atmosphere of "Where Have You Been?" and "I Can Barely Breathe" hint at the cinematic scale of the group's future even as quieter moments like "I Can Feel Your Pain" and "Sleeper 1972" elevate a delicate vulnerability that's long been the heart of Andy Hull's songwriting. Across the album, Hull's words arrive with a startling maturity for a 19-year-old, yet they're cut with the wide-eyed urgency of someone experiencing adulthood in real time. As he grapples with spirituality, romance, identity and mortality — moving effortlessly between existential dread and full-hearted adoration, private reflection and a yearning to understand the world around him — he writes with remarkable honesty, never dulling the rawest edges of his emotions or worrying how they might be received.

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This item will be released on Friday 16th October. It will be shipped to arrive on or around the release date.

What's most striking about Manchester Orchestra's debut full-length, I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child, isn't how much the Atlanta-based group have evolved in the two decades since its release, but how much of their identity was already there from the very beginning. Recorded without a label, outside expectations or even a surplus of material, the album found the band embracing spontaneity over perfection and, in the process, establishing the emotional and sonic hallmarks that would become their defining quality.The organ that swells throughout the album-opening "Wolves at Night" recalls the band's Southern gospel upbringing, but when laid atop a dirty, downtuned guitar riff indebted to '90s fuzz, it creates competing impulses that ripple through every corner of the record. Songs that begin as near-whispers swell into walls of sound, while the droning atmosphere of "Where Have You Been?" and "I Can Barely Breathe" hint at the cinematic scale of the group's future even as quieter moments like "I Can Feel Your Pain" and "Sleeper 1972" elevate a delicate vulnerability that's long been the heart of Andy Hull's songwriting. Across the album, Hull's words arrive with a startling maturity for a 19-year-old, yet they're cut with the wide-eyed urgency of someone experiencing adulthood in real time. As he grapples with spirituality, romance, identity and mortality — moving effortlessly between existential dread and full-hearted adoration, private reflection and a yearning to understand the world around him — he writes with remarkable honesty, never dulling the rawest edges of his emotions or worrying how they might be received.

Track Listing

Disc One

Wolves at Night

Now That You're Home

The Neighborhood Is Bleeding

I Can Feel Your Pain

Where Have You Been?

I Can Barely Breathe

Sleeper 1972

Golden Ticket

Alice and Interiors

Don't Let Them See You Cry

Colly Strings

Disc Two

Wolves at Night (Reimagined)

Now That You're Home (Reimagined)

The Neighborhood Is Bleeding (Reimagined)

I Can Feel Your Pain (Reimagined)

Where Have You Been? (Reimagined)

I Can Barely Breathe (Reimagined)

Sleeper 1972 (Reimagined)

Golden Ticket (Reimagined)

Alice and Interiors (Reimagined)

Don't Let Them See You Cry (Reimagined)

Colly Strings (Reimagined)

Details
  • Product Type: Vinyl
  • Barcode: 0840526514878
  • Release Date: October 16, 2026
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