LISTEN: Manor – ‘Architecture’

Aside from cheap vinyl and tinnitus, coupled-up duos are probably one of my favourite things about music. While that’s possibly just the Thurston/Kim truism I’ve been harbouring for forever – or the general assumption that tormented bed friends make better musicians (true?), I’ve always found that these kind of musical partnerships give a depth and a truthful backlog to artist’s songwriting, something that a group of boys, or girls clamouring on about their hormones could never provide.

Manor are Nathaniel Morse and Caitlin Duff. Both Morse and Duff previously played in now sadfly defunct Adelaide band Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire!, before relocating to Melbourne. I really doubt these two are even a couple, but in respectable dream-pop tradition ie. Tennis, Chairlift, Wye Oak, Big Deal – they are for the sake of this write up.

The duo’s previous single ‘Afghan Hound’ may have been equitably more math-rock on the outset, but the band’s new single ‘Architecture’ is timeless pop right from the first off-beat. To the main point, the fledging groove here sounds waaay too much like Chairlift’s Caroline Polachek doing a cover of Men At Work’s ‘Land Down Under’ for anyone to ignore.

Manor are releasing their debut EP at the end of 2013. GET THIS IN YOUR EARS.

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