
Today is one of those rare times when I wish I owned a time machine --not because I'd do anything overtly awesome like hanging out with Abe Lincoln, Mozart, or killing the baby Hilter or anything like that. Instead I would probably take Here Holy Spain's debut release "Manic" back to about 13 years ago and give it to young me. The grungy guitar work and vocal angst that give the disc its title were just the type of criteria that adolescent me lived for. Not to slight the disc at all or to insinuate in any way [...]