Manchester Orchestra is an American indie rock band from Atlanta formed in Former drummer Jeremiah Edmond parted ways with the band in January to focus on his family and on running the band's record label, Favorite Gentlemen. The band's original bassist, Jonathan Corley, parted ways with the band in Manchester Orchestra originated in the Atlanta suburbs. Feeling increasingly alienated at his "small-town-Georgia, Christian high school" named Providence Christian Academy, in suburban Atlanta, the band's lead singer Andy Hull became so frustrated that he spent his senior year studying at home. He also wrote and recorded his first full-length album in while studying during his last year of high school.