The Atlantic Manor

The Trouble That You Left

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a stunningly suffocating atmosphere of all encompassing melancholic despair. Add everything together and the net result is a beautifully somber and moving lo-fl minimalist pop masterpiece of remarkable merit and poignancy.

tracks

: 1 Positive Bleeding
: 2 Imatation Saturday
: 3 The Trouble That You Left
: 4 Two Story House
: 5 No Reward
: 6 Your White Is Gray
: 7 Black Dress
: 8 It's Got to Hurt For Someone

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Flourishing in obscurity and flying well below the indie-rock radar. THE ATLANTIC MANOR is the alias of one R. Sell. Born in the wake of the early 90's lo-fi explosion albums such as WHEN I AM A VIKING, THE HATE WE GET GOING, THE DESPERATE VIBE OF EMOTIONAL DEVASTATION, FAILING BY THE SECOND, SPECIAL IS DEAD, SNEAKING UP ON THE DEATH SCENE and THE TROUBLE THAT YOU LEFT exile the listener to a world of sorrow, isolation, turmoil and loss.

Minimalist dirges and stark fractured songs combined with traditional song craft, shardes of feedback and somber confessional lyrics have become a trademark. Fans of the off-kilter sect will find a new Champion in THE ATLANTIC MANOR. With each new release, R. Sell continues to carve his own unique niche within the underground community.

KEEPING THE UNDERGROUND ALIVE...
ONE RECORD AT A TIME.

This album along with "Sneaking Up On The Death Scene" have just been released. The records have yet to be sent out to medis publications for possible review consideration.

Please visit www.THEATLANTICMANOR.COM

NEO-ZINE

The Atlantic Manor "The Trouble That You Left"

The Atlantic Manor is one of those bands that renews my belief that something new/ exciting/ maybe even extreme can be done with normal everyday music. These are all well crafted rock ballads. The piano sounds great. The vocals are very crowd friendly. Thing is, there are just little unexpected quirks to these songs which enrich the already fertile songwriting to make it seem "heads above the dime-a-dozens." This CD reminds me a bit of Nick Cave for some reason (though not quite as deep and dark.) and a little bit of Pink Floyd. I'm sure that I could derive entertainment form these songs without imaginative use of sound. With it, I call the CD AMAZING! I'd push this band on the labels. You want to pounce on Atlantic Manor while the genius is still fresh.

SMOTHER

I've already reviewed two past Atlantic Manor albums, both of which I truly enjoyed. This follow-up is just as golden and I was surprised to find that the album was recorded in only a couple of takes. It truly showcases the talent that these folks have. Catapulted into the background are eclectic noises that spiral the album into an acid-drenched epiphany. Now please go and find others to join you in appreciating their genius. Indie rock this good deserves to be shared.

- J-Sin

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THE ATLANTIC MANOR - THE TROUBLE THAT YOU LEFT, DO TOO RECORDS/3950 CLUB

The Atlantic Manor is one man named R. Sell, the music is all DIY and is minimal to a point that makes you keep listening to what's next. Slow drum beats and crescendos of cymbals stab occasionally into Sell's Neil Young like vocal delivery and chanting guitar strums. The slower pace and austere lyrics make this an ominously beautiful piece of work. Haunting artwork accompanies this too. This is almost like if Neil young fronted Dead Meadow, rad.

NORMAN FAMOUS
"The Trouble That You Left"

The Atlantic Manor teeter on the edge of greatness. So what if this sounds like eight slightly different versions of the same song? It's that slight difference that makes all the difference. Apparently written on the spot and recorded in one or two takes (R. Sell, the moving force behind T.A.M., calls it "gorilla recording") this is masterfully moody D.I.Y. underground rock. Anyone who has any respect for independent music should own at least one Atlantic Manor cd. This one's my favorite so far. Support the underground. www.theatlanticmanor.com

INDIE DISCO

With a voice like Vic Chestnut's and more twang than one usually associates with Miami, R. Sell of Atlantic Manor is indier than thou and proud of it. "Fuck Matador" reads one insert blurb. "Now go start your own band and press a record" reads another. Just to make sure we get the idea, Atlantic Manor has self-released not one but two full length CDs, The Trouble that You Left and Sneaking Up On The Death Scene on Do Too Records.

There is a bit of southern gothic to this Atlantic Manor, as evident in the architecture of the music as the distinctly sombre lyrics. R. Sell has a preoccupation with death, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Scud Mountain Boys did roughly the same kind of thing back in '93, and it was a selling point. Like the Scuds, Atlantic Manor is a four piece that tends to sound like it plays sitting down around a kitchen table. Although that's not to say they can't crank up the distortion and rock.

The Trouble That You Left is a musical journal of loneliness and despair, but for some odd reason, it's not depressing. 'Your White Is Gray' is almost upbeat, with the boppy chorus: "It's ok, it's a beautiful day if you want to leave..." 'Black Dress' is blackly catchy, and 'Two Story House,' despite its length, is an interesting exercise in low-key effect-mongering. 'It's Got To Hurt Someone,' the midtempo pop ballad that closes out the album, makes of misery a palace - or at least, a decent apartment.

Death Scene is darker still - perhaps there's a method to their madness? Recorded in a few takes with no rehearsal, it's got a raw quality and less twang than its co-release. Keening guitars moan and cry like suicides in the night while 'Judas Trip' sounds a death knell. If R. Sell is a tortured soul hell-bent on self-destruction, this record is a testament. (Let's hope he isn't.)

You can find out everything and more about The Atlantic Manor by visiting their web site at http://www.theatlanticmanor.com. The only thing you can't do is download tracks, which is a too bad.

JERSEY BEAT "The Trouble That You Left"

You know that this is a special column when you got not one, but two -count 'em, man, two - reviews of the latest albums from the always reliable and surprising R.Sell. Yeah, I'm sure there are folks out there who don't care for either Sell's sublimely mumbly ravaged moan or constantly down in the dumps gloom-doom attitude. Well, I sure ain't one of those dudes. In fact, I seriously love Sell's fiercely dark, stark, and lo-fl minimalist mopey music. Maybe it's the way Sell's raggedy-ass voice cuts right to the heart of the matter with a certainly harshly unsentimental straightforwardness. Then again, it could be Sell's commendable willingness to plumb the very despairing depths of the human soul with a hard, beady, unblinkinl commitment that's second to no one. Of course, anyone who records songs in one or two takes sans rehearsals scores bonus points from yours truly for sheer "screw it, do it" flying-by-the-seatof-your-pants audacity. And, last but definitely not least, there's a genuinely haunting urgency and poignancy to Sell's singularly rough'n'rickety music that never fails to both wrench my heart and make all the hair on my hands stand on end. Now, anyone who produces music that does both remarkable feats simultaneously will continue to rate highly as a real artist of exceptional skill and dependability in my book. - Joe W.

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author: robert parks
wonderful songs... dark in the best possible ways. A record I keep coming back to.