Category Archives: Press

The kind gentlemen at the Bodies of Water blog just wrote this really nice post about our album. We’re very excited about it. Here’s what they had to say… Boston’s MARCONI released a record called MINUTES TO MANIFEST DESTINY a little while ago. And it is one beautiful pop record. The record is full of [...]

Thanks C.D. for the Christmas spirited write-up on the Boston Band Crush blog. “This track doesn’t go softly into the whirling snow, it plods headlong in, barely noticing the wind that bites at its face.” Sweet. Word life.

The Weekly Dig ran a complimentary review of our album in anticipation of the release this weekend. They say: “It’s refreshing to see someone release a disc without trying too hard to brand the band or create the latest multi-adjective subgenre. The bob-yer-head quality of “Narrow Gauge,” the meditative pace of “Another Man’s Rhubarb,” the [...]

The Boston Phoenix have chosen the first track off of our new album, “Grady Calloway’s Heart Of Gold”, to be their MP3 of the Week. They call it “serious business, teeming with spiraling melodies, split-screen narrative and wordplay, shag-carpet organ chords, and a motley percussion crew Tom Waits could be proud of.” That’s real nice. [...]

Boston Band Crush ain’t a player. They just crush a lot. Count Marconi among the ranks. We’re blushing. They’ve posted an interview and feature for your reading pleasure here.

We have press! In advance of our album release, here’s an article about us in today’s Boston Globe: The debut album from Marconi, “Minutes to Manifest Destiny,’’ opens with the line “Coast to coast by phone’’ and ends up dropping us off somewhere in the Ice Age. Its thickly layered indie-rock fades away into a [...]