Manos TSOV-43 "Heart Swell" and "Bleached Blonde"

"Heart Swell" and "Bleached Blonde"

only previously released as a 45 for the tiny Pongo label back in 1984

but Krauter's light touch feels like something all his own

and sometimes fall back together

Manos TSOV-43 "Heart Swell" and "Bleached Blonde"A college radio hit, Manos was characterized as indiepop or indie rock or "alternative, but also had a touch of art rock, folk, emo, math rock, postrock, even jazz, nearing the same spiritual space as '90s bands like Unrest, Sebadoh, and Versus. [Rebecca] Gates told our zine in 1993 what kind of record she wanted to make: She wanted it to be "really magical the way the first Verlaines record is or a Replacements record things that you can put on when