Mantis

Chicago's Umphrey's McGee entered it's second decade together with their most progressive, melodic and artistically cohesive album to date. The album originally hit the streets on Inauguration Day, January 20, 2009, when Mantis cast another Windy City family into the limelight. Over 2 years in the making, Mantis pushed the envelope in composition, arrangement and group interplay. In an Umphrey's McGee first, the album offered 100% new material - a drastic change of pace for a band whose typical modus operandi was to work out the material live on-stage before recording studio versions.