Editorial Reviews
Deserter's Songs
Music Review:
Music Review
Love X Love Who Needs Love Remixes [Import]
Beethoven: Klavierkonzert D-dur, Op. 61; Fantasie, Op. 80
Music: Hotel Attraction: Gaudi's Project for New York [Enhan
A Retrospective [Explicit Lyrics]
Amazon.com's Best of 1998
For 1998, Mercury Rev did something completely different: they shunned the psychedelic rock of their previous ways and went for baroque. Literally. On Deserter's Songs, bowed saw plays as prominent a role as guitar, and most of the songs are ballads, not anthems. There's a tender, folksy quality here that was missing in the group's previous (albeit also great) recordings. Mercury Rev have always been difficult to classify; yet on this album they make the pigeonholing even more difficult. --Jason Verlinde
Amazon.com
Years before the slacker-minstral chic of the Elephant Six Collective (Neutral Milk Hotel, Olivia Tremor Control, Apples in Stereo, et al.) strummed their way into left-of-the-dial fame, Mercury Rev were busy composing their own psychedelic soundtracks for nothing in particular. It seems as though we've heard it all before: lo-fi is predictable, the musical saw is downright ubiquitous (yeah, it shows up on Deserter's Songs) in indie rock, and the mellotron's chords are all too common. Yet... read more