Music from the Motion Picture

Product Description 2013 release, the first studio album from the band in over a decade. This album is the first to feature guitarist Jeff Erickson since he took over for Robert Buck following his death in 2000. In addition to his guitar efforts, Erickson provides the first male lead vocals on a Maniacs song in many years. The band is fronted by Mary Ramsey, who took over when Natalie Merchant left the band two decades ago. Review "10,000 Maniacs should be enshrined with rock's royalty…inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It would be a much-deserved honor." --Dave Astor, Huffinton Post "If the songs of 10,000 Maniacs look squarely at the pain of the world, their darkness is balanced by an upbeat droning folk-rock that belongs in roughly the same mode as the music of U2 and R.E.M. In its faster tempoed numbers, the music is actually danceable. The particular contribution to the genre by 10,000 Maniacs, who come from Jamestown, N.Y., has been to add strong Celtic flourishes redolent of 1960's British groups like Fairport Convention. These echoes can be felt most strongly in the modal inflections of the group's plain, circular melodies…" --Stephen Holden, NY Times