Man Man "On Oni Pond"

Country: USA
Sub Genre: Avant Prog, Art Rock
Label: Anti Records
Release date: September 10, 2013
Tracklist: 
1. Oni Swan (0:39)
2. Pink Wonton (3:19)
3. End Boss (4:12)
4. Head On (4:25)
5. King Shiv (5:06)
6. Loot My Body (3:25)
7. Deep Cover (3:03)
8. Pyramids (3:54)
9. Sparks (3:34)
10. Fangs (3:50)
11. Paul's Grotesque (5:37)
12. Curtains (1:03)
13. Born Tight (3:43)

Line-up: 
Honus Honus
Pow Pow
    With:
Adam Schatz - horn arrangements, keyboards, saxophone, vocals (background)
Brandon Lerbs, Tommy Van Den Berg, Sweet Willie Karpf and Andrew Beckstrom - horns
Nate Walcott - string arrangements
Frank Seligman, Tracy Dunn, Keith Plenert and Phyllis Duncan - strings
Jamey "T. Moth" Robinson - bass, celeste, synthesizer, vocals (background)
Mike Mogis - bass, guitar
Susan Sanchez - vocals
A. J. Mogis - upright bass - 3, 5, 6
Kara Nelson - vocals - 2, 6
Nate Walcott - trumpet solo/arrangement - 6

Description/Reviews: 

Like every Man Man album, On Oni Pond finds the wolfish Philadelphia crew to be more traditionally tuneful and less grating than the last time out. The obvious play is to acknowledge it as part of the ongoing maturation of Man Man, yet it always feels strange talking about “maturity” for a band that never sounded young. That isn’t to say Man Man sounded old, as in tired and tame. It’s more in the sense that everything from Honus Honus’ lupine howling to their dilapidated percussion warranted adjectives like “grizzled,” “feral,” “untamed.” The junkyard dog descriptor made sense-- Man Man sounded like a band that lived on scraps and aged seven times quicker than everyone else. But really, “maturity” is something of a feint listening to On Oni Pond. Perhaps they’re becoming more “adult”, in that while Man Man puts forth the outer appearance of having their shit together, on the inside, their darker impulses are repressed into something more grotesque and frightening 

Read the full review by Ian Cohen at pitchfork.com

Media/Samples 
Head On

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