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Like Mercury Rev, Keane have clearly been hunting for a new direction to pursue; sadly, on Perfect Symmetry their searches seem to have led them back to possibly the most musically bereft decade of the 20th century, the 1980s. On the upside, this has facilitated the funkiest performance of their career, "Spiralling" opening the album with an infectious piano, synth and percussion groove behind Tom...
Less than 48 hours ago, Mercury Rev's " Butterfly's Wing " took us on a psychedelic trek through a Japanese landscape stocked with rice paper boats and jellyfish, twisty tree branches, dragonflies, kindly whales, and flower pedal rainstorms. Following that Japanese theme -- at least in name -- Fujiya & Miyagi have offered up a remix of Snowflake Midnight 's bombastic first single " Senses On Fire...
Photo: VK Red Duvivier “Ready or not, here I come,” singer Jonathan Donahue declares in “Senses on Fire” on Mercury Rev’s new album, Snowflake Midnight (Yep Roc) — in a machinelike croon so obscured by dirty, rubbery electronics that it’s hard to tell where “here” is. For this upstate New York band, that is normal [...]
It seems that everyone is doing it, giving away their music for free that is, or at least nearly free (Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, Girl Talk). Now, hot on the heels of their latest album release, Midnight Snowflake, Mercury Rev have given those on their email list the chance to download it’s companion album, an [...]
Mercury Rev fall firmly into the camp of bands that’s success is less than the success of an individual member, thanks to bassist Dave Frdmann’s bang-up production work for the ...
The psychedelic Upstate New Yorkers in Mercury Rev focus on a cat with butterfly wings and a flying elephant (who can shoot fireworks out of his trunk) in their video for Snowflake Midnight 's "Butterfly's Wing." But while the old "butterfly effect" saying uses China as an example, this clip focuses on a fantastical Japanese landscape complete with rice paper boats and jellyfish, twisty tree branches,...
Fucked Up The Chemistry of Common Life Matador Fucked Up aren't out to save punk rock, and The Chemistry of Common Life wasn't recorded with the explicit purpose of saving punk rock, but...Let's say that something is wrong with punk rock today. Let's say that it needs to be moved out of Hot Topic and the shopping malls, and away from the summer camp for kids with bad hair cuts that is the Warped Tour....
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Hush Arbors: "Follow Closely" [mp3] from Hush Arbors (out October 21st) other Hush Arbors posts at Largehearted Boy Marcio Local: "Samba Sem Nenhum Problema" [mp3] from Luaka Bop's 3 Inches of Music Series (LBOP-3003)...
deliver. They deliver grandiose harmonies. They deliver scurrilous, glitchy drum beats. They deliver ostentatious production and they deliver sublime melody. From a band that have seemingly been around since the dawn of time, it's a testament to their substantial talent that they are still here, still mining their own creativity and that they haven't been buried in the deluge of bands riding the crest...
Mercury Rev has officially lost me. I found no enjoyment in listening to Snowflake Midnight and couldn't help but feel that the band has been transformed from cutting edge Alternative Rock into a New Age enigmas. Songs like the instrumental "October Sunshine" seem pointless. I do like some of the effects they use like the synth heavy "Runaway Raindrop" but for the most part I just felt like taking...
i’m not sure what’s weirder. finding out that mercury rev has a new album out or finding out that mercury rev has a new album out from fred wilson . “carwash hair” was one those songs that really helped me get through those tough chicago winters.
Pop stars are now minted and discarded in the "blogosphere" and the shady realm of digital file-sharing before they ever get a chance to become pop stars through the old, official channels.
