Mancie

Every musical movement needs an anthem, and Mancie may have delivered the “House of Jealous Lovers” of 2012 with “Hey Brooklyn!” Blending a Courtney Love swagger with a sexy splash of Peaches, Mancie could just be the soundtrack to your next bad decision. “Hey Brooklyn!” is an ode to Williamsburg, touching on everything from the tattooed hipster boys to Union Pool. It drips with sugary sleaze and is the perfect road map to a wild night off the L train. Thanks Mancie! - Vice Magazine

Every musical movement needs an anthem, and Mancie may have delivered the “House of Jealous Lovers” of 2012 with “Hey Brooklyn!” Blending a Courtney Love swagger with a sexy splash of Peaches, Mancie could just be the soundtrack to your next bad decision. “Hey Brooklyn!” is an ode to Williamsburg, touching on everything from the tattooed hipster boys to Union Pool. It drips with sugary sleaze and is the perfect road map to a wild night off the L train. Thanks Mancie! - Vice Magazine

As soon as somebody comes up with a new way to describe tight, well-played punk rock with punchy chorus hooks, I’ll tell you more about why I liked it.
- Boston Phoenix (Ted Drodowski)

New York City post-punk posters Mancie dropped their debut EP last year after spending half a decade making music. The formerly Boston-based band blends punk attitude and energy with pop hooks. Mancie opens with “So Well”, an catchy/edgy rock tune that seems ripe for radio or licensing. “Say Say” is a bit more garage in presentation; a simplistic call out on a relationship with no future…Vocalist Andrea occasionally sounds a bit like Chrissie Hynde. - Wildy's World

New York City post-punk posters Mancie dropped their debut EP last year after spending half a decade making music. The formerly Boston-based band blends punk attitude and energy with pop hooks. Mancie opens with “So Well”, an catchy/edgy rock tune that seems ripe for radio or licensing. “Say Say” is a bit more garage in presentation; a simplistic call out on a relationship with no future…Vocalist Andrea occasionally sounds a bit like Chrissie Hynde. - Wildy's World

Mancie is their name, and searing garage rock is their game. Since founding members Andrea Montgomery and Mark Feldman met at a Williamsburg practice space in 2009, this female-led, NYC-based threesome has dropped two EPs and gigged all over town. Whether unleashing a tremulous sigh or a gut-wrenching shriek, vocalist Montgomery is a whiz at wielding simplicity for maximal emotional impact. Rightly, Mancie has gotten attention for their driving live performances. Get in gear for visceral, no-nonsense rock at its punchiest. - Beaconpass (Joy Hanson)

I came up in the 90's, which was a crazy time for music.. so my tastes range from very pop to very punk depending on the mood.I’m lucky, I had choices, so many in fact, that my ears have been trained to sift through all the noise and find the good stuff. I’d like to think I know good music when I hear it. Enter Mancie, a group I found while watching a live stream from The Knitting Factory. Andrea Montgomery is the lead singer and guitarist and she’s playing good music, good old fashioned garage punk rock! Her sound reminds me of another Knitting Factory veteran, Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeah and I’m always thinking we need more like her in the music industry. She balances masculine & feminine energy in her music, stage presence and she’s perfectly quirky. - In the clotheset Blog (Jenina Marie)

I came up in the 90's, which was a crazy time for music.. so my tastes range from very pop to very punk depending on the mood.I’m lucky, I had choices, so many in fact, that my ears have been trained to sift through all the noise and find the good stuff. I’d like to think I know good music when I hear it. Enter Mancie, a group I found while watching a live stream from The Knitting Factory. Andrea Montgomery is the lead singer and guitarist and she’s playing good music, good old fashioned garage punk rock! Her sound reminds me of another Knitting Factory veteran, Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeah and I’m always thinking we need more like her in the music industry. She balances masculine & feminine energy in her music, stage presence and she’s perfectly quirky. - In the clotheset Blog (Jenina Marie)

Mancie Proves That Real Rock & Roll Still Exists in Williamsburg
Good old-fashioned garage-punk rock from…Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Proof that good things sometimes rear their heads in the most unlikely places. The titles of the songs on Mancie’s new ep reflect how they’re written – they keep ‘em simple and nasty. Singer/guitarist Andrea Montgomery delivers them with an uneasy, impassioned voice: it’s clear that she means business, all the more so because she doesn’t go completely over the top. What she holds in reserve is the scary part. The first song, the riff-rocking So Well blends tasty layers of guitar, mixing distortion and wah tones. Track two, Say Say works off a growling four-note riff a la the Detroit Cobras, with a sweet, noisy guitar breakdown mid-song: “I want to say (SAY!) we’re going nowhere,” Montgomery sardonically reminds.
Don’t Even Try starts off with a trip-hop beat, which seems strikingly out of place here, like somebody was trying to make a pop song out of it – but the song resists, and when the guitars kick in, hard, it’s worth the wait. The last cut, Second Best, a swaying backbeat ballad hints that it might also go in a pop direction but once again, when the guitars attack – janglier, this time – it’s clear that this crew aren’t interested in selling out. The quavery wah solo straight out of the Ron Asheton playbook, 1969, is priceless. Mancie sound like they’d be a lot of fun live!


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