Metal Blade
2001
Manic Moonlight
About This Album
After the relatively eccentric Please Come Home...Mr. Bulbous, King's X returned with the most confidently organic and groove-based record of their career. Manic Moonlight, the Texas trio's ninth album, is the sound of a band who has vented their demons and come to terms with themselves. This can be credited to several factors: for one, the band has been creating music in a low-pressure environment since finding sanctuary in the supportive indie label Metal Blade in 1998 (following nearly a decade-long sentence in major-label hell). For another, Ty Tabor and Doug Pinnick have both satisfied some of their extracurricular creative impulses with solo albums and other projects, which has contributed to the band's freshness and newfound ability to write collaboratively (which they have done since the wonderfully cathartic Tape Head album in 1998). On Manic Moonlight, the group's musical and lyrical themes are simple ones, developed with confidence and conviction. The album opener, "Believe," says it all; over an understated, soulful groove that would make Sly Stone proud, singer Pinnick advises, simply, "in yourself believe, it's alright." No longer grappling so much with issues of God and spiritual faith (Pinnick has publicly announced his abandonment of Christianity), the band now finds strength in themselves and address the day-to-day struggles of personal longing, love, and getting older.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,4,6,8 and 9)

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