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Manhattan

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Download links and information about Manhattan by Skaters. This album was released in 2014 and it belongs to Rock, Alternative genres. It contains 11 tracks with total duration of 33:49 minutes.

Artist: Skaters
Release date: 2014
Genre: Rock, Alternative
Tracks: 11
Duration: 33:49
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Tracks

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No. Title Length
1. One of Us 2:24
2. Miss Teen Massachusetts 3:55
3. Deadbolt 3:03
4. Band Breaker 3:46
5. To Be Young In NYC 3:26
6. Schemers 2:47
7. Symptomatic 3:11
8. Fear of the Knife 2:56
9. I Wanna Dance (But I Don't Know How) 2:58
10. Nice Hat 2:13
11. This Much I Care 3:10

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Skaters have a long way to go before joining such Big Apple luminaries as The Ramones and Blondie, but with their debut album they've taken the first step: they've written a collection of songs all about what it's like to be young in New York City (one's even called "To Be Young in NYC"). Mixing a palette of sounds as diverse as the record's titular borough—garage rock, new wave, dub, reggae, electro—the four-piece paint a vivid picture of the long nights and bleary-eyed mornings that characterize coming of age in a city that never sleeps. Accented by samples and vocal snippets—of the subway, of a woman complaining about apartment hunting—the tunes whiz by with the fervor of a taxi at rush hour. "Band Breaker" is a lilting reggae track in the spirit of The Clash; "Deadbolt" borrows Billy Idol's libidinous snarl; "Miss Teen Massachusetts" is the kind of lackadaisical anthem The Strokes pioneered. When frontman Michael Ian Cummings assesses his hipster peers as "a generation of jerks," it epitomizes the love-hate relationship so many have with the city.